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Captain S. Martin Shelton, USN (ret.) completed “forty plus years
of military service which included active duty in the Korean and Vietnam wars, requiring that he travel throughout the world,
with particular emphasis on the Far East. S. Martin Shelton has an extensive background in Soviet and Chinese
studies which fostered his interest in the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Bolshevik’s regicide of the Czar, Empress, and
their five children, and the burgeoning Soviet Communist régime. Captain S. Martin Shelton is the author of St. Catherine's
Crown.
According to the book description of St. Catherine's Crown, “1917-
Empress Alexandria understands that the Bolsheviks will soon topple the Czar. She charges her godson, Kirik Pirogov, to carry
the imperial crown of Catherine the Great and a cache of Romanov jewelry to a secret czarist refuge in western China. Alexandra
informs her youngest daughter, Grand Duchess Anastasia, of the escape route necessary to carry on the Romanov Dynasty.
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