Bear Against the Sun

This is a dramatic story of two young men from vastly different cultures who are brought together by world events beyond their control. Ivan Medved, born into the wealth and pageantry of Imperial Russia, travels a path that transforms him from a pious, God-fearing member of the loyal aristocracy into a young man who questions the very foundations of his life—the existence of God and the Divine Right of his Tsar. But his love for a commoner gradually awakens him to the poverty and hopelessne...