Frederick Ferdinand Moore
The Samovar Girl
"The Samovar Girl" by Frederick Ferdinand Moore is a romance and adventure novel published in 1921. Set in Siberia during the Russian Civil War, the story follows Peter Gordon, a US Army lieutenant who returns to his hometown of Chita twenty years after witnessing his father's murder by the Czar's governor. Now the former governor and his daughter hide from local Cossack forces, believing the visiting American has come to rescue them. In this world of shifting allegiances and hidden motives, no one knows who to trust.