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Yvgenie
Yvgenie is a fantasy novel by American science fiction and fantasy author C. J. Cherryh. It was first published in October 1991 in the United States in a hardcover edition by Ballantine Books under its Del Rey Books imprint. Yvgenie is book three of Cherryh's three-book Russian Stories trilogy set in medieval Russia in forests along the Dnieper River near Kiev in modern day Ukraine. The novel draws on Slavic folklore and concerns the fate of a girl who has downed and become a rusalka. It is also an exploration of magic and the development of a young wizard.
Cherryh self-published a revised edition of Yvgenie in e-book format in 2012 at Closed Circle Publications.