![]() From then on, poor Zoya can hardly walk down the street without a cataclysm of some sort befalling her.ĭuring World War I alone, she becomes a dancer with the Ballets Russes, falls in love with an American soldier, gets her heart broken, mends it, buries her grandmother and Feodor, and marries the American. Zoya, her grandmother (Diana Rigg), the faithful family retainer Feodor and a puppy escape across the steppes to Paris, with only a few jewels and a Faberge egg to call their own. Zoya (Gilbert), the central character of this tale, is a niece of Nicholas II, the Russian czar who was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1917, along with most of his family. ![]() She sets up a bunch of exotic characters, picks one central woman and then hits her with enough catastrophes to turn a mere mortal into a blubbering basket case. ![]() Not "Zoya," but "Danielle Steel's Zoya," which presumably is a brand name of some weight, like "Quaker Oats," or "Encyclopaedia Britannica." Steel does seem to have a patented formula, and it often works. ![]() "There had been so much trrragedy in my life," says Melissa Gilbert in a Russian accent, capturing in one sentence the basic premise of "Danielle Steel's Zoya," a two-part melodrama that starts tomorrow night on NBC. ![]()
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