Floris Tome 1 : Fils du tsar

In 1717, during Peter the Great's official visit to the young King Louis XV, chance brings the tsar and Countess Maximilienne de Villeneuve-Caramay face to face. The fate of both is turned upside down.
Although she is married and the mother of Adrien, a two-year-old child, she does not hesitate to follow the tsar to Russia. Tumultuous days will lead the countess, her eldest son, and the glorious bastard Floris, whom she will have had by the tsar, from Moscow to Turkey, passing through the splendours of Saint Petersburg, the shores of the Baltic, the Peter and Paul Fortress, the Ukrainian steppes. The protagonists of this adventure will successively experience the luxury and pomp of the court, the straw of dungeons, escape by sleigh, wolf attacks, the harshness of camps, battles...