Firsid Barsa, author of The Janissary Trilogy, is keenly interested in Russian and European history of the Jacobin and Napoleonic periods.

Even though the story takes place on a distant world, Barsa would like readers to come away with a feeling that they have met, and engaged with, the characters as actual people, albeit people who have been thrust into the midst of cataclysmic historical events.  We human beings are all products of our time, our class, our culture and yet the struggle for justice and equality transcend all the forces ever arrayed against us.