Novel set in USA, LONDON, PARIS
Your chance to win a very special prize in our September competition…
19th September 2016
We have a very special prize for you this month…
Gill Paul’s brilliant new novel, The Secret Wife, tells the story of what might have happened to one of the Romanov daughters after the slaughter of the royal family during the Russian Revolution. It is the epic story of the possible romance between Grand Duchess Tatiana Romanova and military lieutenant Dmitri Malama, and has deservedly gone straight into the Best Sellers lists.
Gill has very kindly donated some extremely generous prizes for us to give away this month. Each of three winners will receive a) a signed copy of the book, b) a Russian Matryoshka doll containing four smaller wooden dolls, and c) a postcard of the couple taken from an historical black and white photograph.
To read TripFiction’s review of this great new novel – plus a great piece by Gill on how she researched the book in St Petersburg – just click here.
To enter the competition, all you have to do is write in the one location you would most like to visit in St Petersburg in the Comments box below (NB. Gill’s piece on her research might help!).
The competition closes at midnight UK time on Thursday 29th September, and the winners will be the first three names out of the hat on Friday 30th.
It’s that easy!
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Congratulations to Helen Thurston, Mariasole Paduos, and Lindsey Martin whose names were first out of the hat when we drew the winners!
Extremely well done to all of you.
It has to be ‘The Winter Gardens’
I would love to visit The Winter Palace! 🙂
I would head straight to the Faberge museum then to to watch a ballet at Mariinsky Theatre, what a fabulous day that would be!
Definitely the faberge museum
Definitely the Winter Palace!
Faberge Museum for me too.. They are spectacular and if money was no object I would have them filling the house!
I’d love to visit the Faberge Museum.
So many to choose from but The Winter Garden would be too of my list
I would love to visti Winter Palace and Peterhof Palace,I love Russian History 🙂
A popular choice but it’s the Winter Palace for me too.
I would love to visit Nevsky Prospekt & feel the city’s culture & life.
I would love to visit Nevsky Prospekt & spend the day exploring this 3 mile stretch of city life & culture.
It has to be the Winter palace!
Peterhof Palace
I would love to watch a ballet at Mariinsky Theatre
The Winter Palace by all means and then the Summer Garden
I would love to visit the Faberge Museum
I visited St Petersburg last year and it was beautiful. My favorite place that we visited was the Faberge museum.
The Winter Palace.
I saw the Hermitage collection when it was in Melbourne.Amazing!!! To see the winter Palace would be breathtaking!!
I would love to visit St Petersburg!!! Nevsky Prospekt and Summer Garden are at the top of my must see list!
Would love to be able to immerse myself in aspects of Russia’s past but would most like to see the Winter Palace
The Hermitage Museum definitely
For me, it would have to be the beautiful Winter Palace. I would love to visit St Petersberg.
I would love to visit the Faberge museum to see the wonderful eggs there.
It would have to be the Hermitage Museum. I’ve dreamed of going for years!
I would most defintely visit the Peterhof Palace. Of course , I must say, included in my visit list would be the Winter Palace, Catherine Palace, Church of the Spilled Blood and the faberge museum and a walk and drive through out the city of Saint Petersburg to listen, feel and smell the scents of Russia.
I would enjoy the Fabergé’ museum.
I would love to visit the Hermitage Museum. It’s a masterpiece full with valuable treasures.
Hermitage museum
I would love to visit the Faberge Museum.
Winter Palace would be tops for me. Thanks for the chance.
I’m an outdoor person so the Summer Garden would be the first place on my itinery
I want to see it all. I want to be in awe of the grandeur of St. Petersburg. I want to see the inspiration of some our greatest authors. I would love to see the beauty of a grand city
I would be drawn to the Fabergé Museum just sso I could look & drool in awe!
Would so love to visit the Summer Garden just to relax and escape the worlds tension! To admire the marble statues and beautiful rare flowers and plants. Sounds heaven.
I would definitely love to visit Winter Palace!
The Winter Palace
I would definitely want to go to the Summer Gardens to sit and just breathe. I would also not want to miss seeing the gravestones of some talented authors at the Volkovskoe Cemetery, to perhaps do a sketch or two.
Hello Tripfiction, hope you’re doing great. Thanks so much for the opportunity. Gill Paul is one of my favorite writers. If I’m in St. Petersburg in Russia, then here is a list of few places that I wouldn’t give it a miss:
1. Nabokov House (A visit to one of the famous Russian author’s house is a must, Vladimir Nabokov)
2. Summer Garden (When it comes to visiting the oldest parks, then Summer Garden is a must visit place in Russia)
3. Volkovskoe Cemetery (Where some of the world renowned authors are buried, then for a readers that’s a place where he/she needs to pay a must visit in order to pay tribute to their great works of literature)
4. State Hermitage Museum (Picasso shouldn’t be left out from your itinerary)
5. The Postal Clerk’s House (Travel back to the 19th century era to Pushkin’s literary world or rather say village)
6. The Winter Palace (Count that at the top of your list! Some architectural grandeur…)
The Amber Room located in the Catherine Palace of Tsarskoye Selo
Id love to visit The Mariinsky Theatre