1991 "First American Edition" stated on copyright page; Alfred A. Knopf publishers; hardbound; very good condition with unmarked pages; dust jacket very good.
 
Storyline -
Born with the new century, Princess Asya Galitzine is drawn at an early age into the turbulent destiny of her country.  After the idyllic splendor of her childhood is shattered by the outbreak of the Russian civil war, she meets Sergei Apollonovitch, a dashing artillery officer, and falls in love for the first time.  But their ecstatic love is brief:  Sergei is soon lost in the chaos of revolution.