Paullina Simons

Paullina Simons was born with the name Paullina Handler in the Soviet Union during the mid-sixties. This is where she set “The Bronze Horseman”, her fourth novel. She lived with her civil lawyer dad and engineer mom and cousin and uncle and aunt in the two rooms they called home. These are the same two rooms that Tatiana, her heroine, would live in with her family. Her paternal grandpa lived through the first brutal winter of the siege of Leningrad before he joined the Red Army in the year 1942.