The Samovar Girl

"The Samovar Girl" by Frederick Ferdinand Moore is a 1921 romance and adventure story set in Chita in eastern Siberia during the Russian Civil War. Ferdinand drew on his experience in Siberia as an intelligence officer with the US Army during the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War. It opens with the protagonist, the Russian son of a bootmaker, Peter, witnessing his father's unjustified killing at the behest of the Czar's governor.