Elisabeth St Michael (Elisabeth de Saint Michael) 1640-1669 was the wife of Samuel Pepys whom she married in 1655, shortly before her fifteenth birthday. Her father, Alexandre de St. Michel, was born a French catholic, but converted to the Protestant faith. He married Dorothea, the daughter of Sir Francis Kingsmill, in Ireland. Elizabeth and her brother Balthasar were both likely born in Devon. Elisabeth was second cousin once removed to the writer Anne Kingsmill Finch. Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 - 26 May 1703) was a leading 17th century English civil servant, latterly famous for his diary. ... Devon is a county in South West England, bordering on Cornwall to the west, Dorset and Somerset to the east. ... Anne Kingsmill Finch, countess of Winchilsea, 1661-1720, was an English poet, one of the first female English poets to be published. ...
To her astonishment, the courier turns out to be Michel himself, who has taken the job so that he could at last visit his mother in Siberia.
Michel has in due course been sent back to Moscow, and Count Potosky, having learned of his daughter's perilous journey, has risked the death penalty to break his exile in search of her.
In the new plot, in which Michel's sweetheart unknowingly puts the crucial letter into the hands of an officer who seems to be the Grand Marshal, Potosky's other great enemy, Élisabeth risks not only failing in her mission, but exposing her father to summary execution.
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