Andrei (formerly Dyusha) has been a character with me for ages. In fact, he's been the first actual full character I had envisioned, or rather he came to me.
It began in 2006 when his initial concept began forming in my then-teen mind.
The concept, summarized succinctly, was as follows:
A young serf boy, the product of a rape crime committed by an aristocrat against a serf woman, is denied his birthright. Later, when older, the boy is falsely accused of two murders when his natural father pins the crimes on the boy. The boy is condemned to Siberia, but escapes by way of a river.He is later taken in by a Don Cossack widower who then adopts