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- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1914
In the fall of 1914, safe behind palace walls, Katya Ivanova sees St. Petersburg as a magical place. The daughter of a lady-in-waiting to the Empress, Katya spends all her time with the Grand Duchesses; the royal family feels...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
- Era(s): 1934
In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin, in the companion story to...
- Location(s): Berlin, Volgograd (Stalingrad)
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): WW2
Berlin, 1942. For Werner Nehmann, a journalist at the Ministry of Propaganda, the dizzying victory of the last four years has felt like a party without end. But the Reich’s attention has turned East, and as winter sets in,...
- Location(s): Herat, Russia, United Kingdom
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2000
A powerful tale of a family in crisis, and a moving love letter to the NHS Herat, Afghanistan, 2000. A mother speaks out against the fundamentalist leaders of her country. Meanwhile, her family’s watchful eyes never leave their beloved...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Siberia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
In 1942 Cilka Klein is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Various
This series celebrates every aspect of Russia’s most legendary city – essential reading for travellers and lovers of wonderful writing about Russia. Malcolm Bradbury guides us to the Hermitage Anna Pavlova describes her school days Vladimir Nabokov re-lives a...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1950s
Leningrad, 1952. Andrei, a young hospital doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the postwar, postsiege wreckage. But their happiness is precarious, like that of millions of Russians who must avoid the claws...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s
Leningrad, September 1941. Hitler orders the German forces to surround the city at the start of the most dangerous, desperate winter in its history. For two pairs of lovers -Anna and Andrei, Anna’s novelist father and banned actress Marina...
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