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- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1961
1961. Hidden deep within central Soviet Russia is a place that doesn’t appear on any map: a city called Arzamas-16. Here a community of dedicated scientists and technicians is building the most powerful nuclear device the world will ever...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2019
Black Tea is a book about Russia that starts in London at the height of the Cold War and ends on a beach in Crimea forty years later. It takes those elements of the writer’s life that were forged...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution. Fairy tale, spy thriller, love story. One man’s life during the last days of the Romanovs, beautifully imagined by award-winning author Marcus Sedgwick. Shortlisted for the Costa Children’s Book Award. Set in the rich and atmospheric...
- Location(s): Kyiv, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, In Translation
- Era(s): 20th Century
For fans of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and Umberto Eco Vodolazkin’s new novel Brisbane is “a sophisticated and frequently moving study in dissonance, dedicated to pointing out contrasts between art and life, beauty and decay, intention and outcome. And, yes, between Ukraine and...
- 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, Crime
- Era(s): early 19th century
Dostoyevsky’s great novel of damnation and redemption evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur. It tells the story of Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, who wanders through the slums of...
Dancing for Stalin: A Dancer’s Story of Courage and Survival in Soviet Russia
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Biography, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Nina Anisimova was one of Russia’s most renowned ballerinas and one of the first Soviet female choreographers. Yet few knew that her exemplary career concealed a dark secret. In 1938, at the height of Stalin’s Great Terror, Nina was...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1918, Russian Revolution
From debut author Carolyn Tara O’Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the Russian Revolution. Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil war–the poor are devouring...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1840s
Nikolai Gogol’s ‘epic poem in prose’, Dead Souls is a damning indictment of a corrupt society, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Robert A. Maguire in Penguin Classics. Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in the...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fantasy, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th century
Koschei the Deathless is to Russian folklore what devils or wicked witches are to European culture: a menacing, evil figure; the villain of countless stories which have been passed on through story and text for generations. But Koschei has...
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