IKONS

About the Book

Russia is in turmoil. Her people have lost faith in their government. Her economy is in ruins and her armed forces are no longer feared. Ethnic and religious rivalries threaten to tear the country apart and world war is coming. The year is 1905.

Ikons follows the Pribish family through this maelstrom as they are swept from the squalor of the Pripet Marsh to the deserts of Tajikstan; from the frozen vastness of Siberia to promised land of the United States. Along the way they witness the destruction of monarchies, the horrors of world war and revolution, the empty promise of communism, and the struggle for democracy.

"Saint Nicholas the Wonder Worker" is first in the Ikons series. Here the reader meets the villagers of Hutawa, Byelorussia―heroes, scoundrels and common folk. Starting with the First Russian Revolution in 1905, the villagers are faced with the class warfare of the industrial age, immigration to America, and the coming war in 1914.

About the Author

Steve Pribish learned Russian history first hand from his father and grandfather. After college, Steve spent thirty-five years working for the United States government monitoring the Soviet Union. He was deeply involved in Russian culture and made prolonged trips into European Russia. Ikons is the result of generations of experience.