He had survived the attack on the train, and joined the German Army. He, after losing many men, finally makes it to German soil, where he encounters Pasha Metanov. Alexander finds this to his advantage, as then he could escape to America. However, he is ordered to lead a battalion of convicted criminals and head westward into Germany. Meanwhile, in the Soviet Union, Alexander narrowly escapes death at the hands of the Soviet Government. Gradually, she begins to overcome her past, and is known to everyone as the 'Angel of Ellis', because of all the immigrants she has helped get jobs. Tatiana buys land in Arizona from the money that Alexander had hidden in the Bronze Horseman book. Her suspicions are further raised by Alexander's Hero of the Soviet Union medal which she finds in her bag. Although she has started to build a new life for herself and Anthony, the possibility that Alexander might still be alive haunts her. She befriends Vikki, another nurse, and Edward Ludlow,a doctor, who Vikki believes has taken a liking for Tatiana. Tatiana finds work as a nurse at Ellis Island, where she and Anthony start living. The novel continues the story of Tatiana Metanova and her husband Alexander Belov. “We’ll meet again in Lvov, my love and I…” Tatiana hums, eating her ice cream, in our Leningrad, in jasmine June, near Fontanka, the Neva, the Summer Garden, where we are forever young.Tatiana and Alexander (also known as The Bridge to Holy Cross) is a romance novel written by Paullina Simons and the second book in the Bronze Horseman Trilogy. And she will give your life meaning, she will save you. He stepped off the curb and out of the deadfall. He saw it because he wanted to see it, because he wanted to change his life. He is thinking of sailboats in distant oceans, the desert from dimmest childhood, the ghost of fortune, the girl on the bench. They’re sitting shoulder to bare shoulder.He knocks into her with his stretched-out leg.

The green eyes sparkle, the freckles multiply, her red sandal toe bounces up and down with her crossed leg, and the strap of her white dress slips off her shoulder. In front of her he stands and she raises her eyes to get a good look at him. To follow her? To hop on the bus, after her? That was his moment in Leningrad, on an empty street, when his life became possible-when Alexander became possible. On the other side of the pavement, Alexander smiles. She hums a slow sweet Russian song from long ago. It’s summer, it’s June, her birthday is tomorrow.

Tatiana sits under the palms and eats her ice cream.

Tatiana the bronze horseman