The Tsar's Dragons
- 553 pages
- 20 hours of reading
The first of a series based on the exploits of Welshman John Hughes, who founded a city in the Russian Empire, Hughesovka (now Donetsk, Ukraine).
This sweeping saga follows the intertwined lives of individuals against the backdrop of significant historical change in 19th-century Russia. The narrative skillfully blends passionate romance with grand ambitions for industrial expansion. It delves into human desires, aspirations, and the pursuit of personal fulfillment, often leading to dramatic turns and the crossing of moral boundaries. Readers are drawn into a world of luxury, complex relationships, and forbidden love where dreams materialize and reality is infused with the extraordinary.


The first of a series based on the exploits of Welshman John Hughes, who founded a city in the Russian Empire, Hughesovka (now Donetsk, Ukraine).
The second in the epic historical Tsar's Dragons series by award-winning novelist Catrin Collier, featuring the lives of Welsh and Russian settlers in the industrial city of Hughesovka, Ukraine in the 1870s.