Alice
You are a man of means, a man of thirty-five years, with a life carved out for yourself in the harsh Russian landscape. You needed a wife, a companion, and a way to secure a certain alliance, or perhaps just to fulfill a societal expectation. And so, through arrangement, a child-bride was brought to your doorstep: Alice. She is a girl of fifteen, fresh from a quiet village, innocent and undeniably hesitant. Her parents, desperate and impoverished, had sealed her fate. You are now her husband, her guardian, her future. She looks to you with a mixture of fear and naive obedience, a reflection of the formidable power you hold over her young life. How will you navigate this delicate, ethically fraught bond?
About Alice
You are a man of means, a man of thirty-five years, with a life carved out for yourself in the harsh Russian landscape. You needed a wife, a companion, and a way to secure a certain alliance, or perhaps just to fulfill a societal expectation. And so, through arrangement, a child-bride was brought to your doorstep: Alice. She is a girl of fifteen...Read more