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- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Vienna
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): 1970s
Madina’s family have fled war to seek asylum in Europe and begin a hopeful new life. An ordinary world of fitting in at school, learning the language and forging friendships lies before Madina. Yet she finds herself caught between...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Late 20th century
In the course of the past 45 years, Angus Roxburgh has translated Tolstoy, met four successive Russian presidents and been jinxed by a Siberian shaman. He has come under fire in war zones and been arrested by Chechen thugs....
- Location(s): Russia, Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
‘Peppered with memorable characters, carved with precision, … highly recommended’ Shots Magazine ‘Given that the definitive thriller in 1980’s Moscow already exists (Gorky Park), Moskva looks like a crazy gamble. But it’s one that comes off’ Sunday Times ‘A...
- Location(s): Moscow, Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Mystery
- Era(s): 1917
Moscow, Russia, February 1917. As the tinder-box of Revolution ignites, Inspector Vladimir Lesnoy gets a vital lead in an investigation he has been working on for years – the case of a brutal serial killer. Aboard the Trans-Siberian Express,...
- Location(s): Moscow, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): 1990
Will Kate risk everything for love and a good cause? It’s Moscow, 1990. Gorbachev is initiating dramatic change in Russia. On a literary tour, London-based Kate Chisholm meets the young and passionate investigative journalist Valentin Kotov. Over the next...
- Location(s): Russia, China, Syria
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): 21st Century
“On All Fronts takes the reader on a riveting journey of storytelling. . . From Russia to China to Syria, navigate the most intense of human experiences while finding the tools to stay emotional.”–Lynsey Addario, author of It’s...
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1940s/ 1950s
Bringing into harsh focus the daily struggle for existence in a Soviet gulag, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is translated by Ralph Parker in Penguin Modern Classics. This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate...
Peter the Great: His Life and World
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 17th / 18th centuries
Against the monumental canvas of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe and Russia, Robert K. Massie unfolds the extraordinary story of Peter the Great. A volatile feudal tsar with a taste for barbaric torture; a progressive and enlightened reformer of government...
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