Cypress Cross

Growing up in an orphanage, Zinaida Nadezhdina, by chance, becomes a servant to one of the maids of honor of the empress. Happy with her lot, the girl dreams of nothing more. She is only frightened by the fact that two of her friends die under strange circumstances, and it seems that she is also in mortal danger. But who needs the life of a poor orphan? To survive, Zinaida will have to unravel the mystery that the cypress cross – a gift from her deceased mother – has kept for many years...