Chapter 30
Leningrad, 1930
It wasn’t supposed to be this way, Militsa thought. After ingesting Rasputin’s poison, she and Stana awoke to the joyous discovery that they were no longer trapped in their aging bodies from Tsarist times, but could live in the bodies of others. They soon found two youthful and attractive Russian women. They could eat, drink, love, dance—enjoy all the best life offered … which admittedly wasn’t much in Bolshevik Russia. But then one day, those women found a means to leave Russia and travel to England. Militsa refused to go, and in her outrage, poisoned them both.
Yet, a part of her could understand the women’s wish to leave. All the beauty and elegance that was once St. Petersburg had been destroyed in the name of the workers’ paradise. The workers were going
