Huntingtower · Character

Alexis Nicolaevitch

A Russian prince and Saskia's brother, moving through the affair with the exiled royal family whose enemies have followed them to Scotland.

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Also known as Alexis

First appearance: xiii the coming of the danish brig

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Introduced as the motorcyclist; reveals himself as the Princess's kinsman and affianced husband; an Australian engineer and former soldier.

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Alexis belongs to the small circle of Russian exiles at the center of the Huntingtower intrigue, bound to Saskia by blood and to the old world by everything he has lost. His presence raises the stakes of what looks at first like a local squabble over a shut-up house: behind the besiegers stand revolutionaries and a fortune in jewels. For Dickson, Alexis is part of the foreign, romantic world he has stumbled into, and the prince's fate is one more reason the quiet Glasgow merchant cannot walk away.

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How Mr. McCunn Committed an Assault Upon an Ally
Introduced as the motorcyclist; reveals himself as the Princess's kinsman and affianced husband; an Australian engineer and former soldier.
XIV: The Second Battle of the Cruives
Attempts to throw a bomb at Saskia but is disarmed by a newcomer; the bomb explodes, damaging the chimneypiece.
XVI: In Which a Princess Leaves a Dark Tower and a Provision Merchant Returns to His Family
Walks with Saskia, speaks of Dickson as the enduring middle-class, and arranges for the surviving Russians to emigrate.

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