A Rock in the Baltic

Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin and Vasily Vereshchagin. A British naval officer is arrested in Russia on a fabricated charge and buried in a fortress on a Baltic island, and the woman who loves him goes to get him out — with a yacht, a bank account and no legal standing whatever. Barr was a Scottish-born Canadian schoolmaster who talked his way into ...