EL CABALLERO DE SAN PETERSBURGO

Towards the end of the 18th century, the young Creole girl Antonia de Salis meets a fascinating Venezuelan soldier in Russia, Francisco de Miranda, the father of Hispano-American independence. Antonia is seduced by a character as idealistic as he is passionate, with the reputation of a Don Juan and a wonderful story-teller, so much so that she decides to follow him to St Petersburg, where Miranda is pursued by a Spanish diplomat hellbent on capturing him. Thirty years later, Miranda, ill, beaten and abandoned by everyone takes visitors in Cádiz jail, as well as receiving the attention of an enigmatic woman. Based on true events, the author invites us on a fascinating journey around Europe at the end of the ancien régime and Independence-era America: an intriguing love story full of incidents, and the sentimental education of a brave woman, freed from all the impediments of her origins.