Царица Елеонора българска

Summary:

A documentary novel. Empress Eleonore is a forty-seven-year-old unmarried princess from the Principality of Reuss, one of those numerous German principalities considered by 19th-century European diplomacy to be “second-rate states”, consisting of 6 cities and 93 villages in the Thuringia region.
She is a world-famous Samaritan who amazed Europe with her participation in the Russo-Japanese War as a senior nurse in the medical train of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna Romanova of Russia and was awarded the Order of Saint Anne by the Russian Emperor – equal in value to the Cross of Bravery for civilians.
She is the second wife of Tsar Ferdinand, who raised his children and became, during the Balkan Wars, a mother, healer and comforter of hundreds of wounded and dying Bulgarians on the fronts, and later of their orphans. “The people are her child” – the newspapers wrote.
She is the first crowned person from Europe invited by the American president to visit his country.
She is the “crowned angel of Bulgaria”, so ardently immortalized in Vazov’s poems.
She is Queen Eleanore of Bulgaria.