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Punishment of a Hunter

Punishment of a Hunter
  • Author(s): Yulia Yakovleva, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Mystery
  • Era(s): 1930s

MURDER 1930s Leningrad. Stalin is tightening his grip on the Soviet Union, and a mood of fear cloaks the city. Detective Vasily Zaitsev is tasked with investigating a series of bizarre and seemingly motiveless homicides. MAYHEM As the curious...

Rasputin’s Daughter

Rasputin’s Daughter
  • Author(s): Robert Alexander
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Post Russian Revolution

Called “brilliant” by USA Today, Robert Alexander’s historical novel The Kitchen Boy swept readers back to the doomed world of the Romanovs. His latest masterpiece once again conjures those turbulent days in a fictional drama of extraordinary depth and...

Rendezvous in Russia

Rendezvous in Russia
  • Author(s): Lauren St John
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): Contemporary

From Cornwall to Russia. Laura, her faithful husky Skye and Tariq are whirled into a breathtaking mystery adventure when they join the film crew on the set of THE ARISTOCRATIC THIEF about an art heist that could never be...

Romanov

Romanov
  • Author(s): Nadine Brandes
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Russian Revolution

Anastasia “Nastya” Romanov was given a single mission: to smuggle an ancient spell into her suitcase on her way to exile in Siberia. It might be her family’s only salvation. But the leader of the Bolshevik army is after...

Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
  • Author(s): C W Gortner
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): post Russian Revolution

Narrated by the mother of Russia’s last tsar, this vivid, historically authentic novel brings to life the courageous story of Maria Feodorovna, one of Imperial Russia’s most compelling women, who witnessed the splendor and tragic downfall of the Romanovs...

Russian Poets

Russian Poets
  • Author(s): Peter Washington (editor)
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Poetry
  • Era(s): 19th / 20th century

Russian poets have always been admired for the lyric and emotional intensity with which they forge private and public experience into verse, and this volume gathers together some of the best-loved, and most powerful and immediate poems from the...

Russian Reckoning

Russian Reckoning
  • Author(s): Joyce Yarrow
  • Location(s): New York City (NYC), Russia
  • Genre(s): Mystery
  • Era(s): Early twenty-first century

Roped into helping her socially inept émigré stepfather, Nikolai, escape the clutches of a blackmailer, performance poet and private investigator Jo Epstein enters a world where criminals enforce a 19th-century code of honor, threats arrive inside not-so-traditional Matryoshka (nesting)...

Russian Winter

Russian Winter
  • Author(s): Daphne Kalotay
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s / 1950s

‘An elegant, compelling puzzle of family, memory and solitude that brings to life modern day Boston and postwar Russia through a profound love story. Graceful, moving and unexpected’ – Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club ‘A tender and...

Salt the Snow

Salt the Snow
  • Author(s): Carrie Callaghan
  • Location(s): Spain, Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1930s

American journalist Milly Bennett has covered murders in San Francisco, fires in Hawaii, and a civil war in China, but 1930s Moscow presents her greatest challenge yet. When her young Russian husband is suddenly arrested by the secret police,...

Small Acts of Kindness, a tale of the first Russian Revolution

Small Acts of Kindness, a tale of the first Russian Revolution
  • Author(s): Jennifer Antill
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1825 to 1828

St Petersburg, 1825. Imperial Russia still basks in the light of glorious victory over Napoleon, but rising resentment against autocracy, enslavement and injustice threatens the state. Vasily, a privileged, naïve young man returns from a tour of Europe destined...

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