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Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
- 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...
- 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...
- 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)...
- 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...
Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
In the crucible of the Second World War, Saint Petersburg – then known as Leningrad – stands as a testament to human endurance. As the Nazis encircle the city, intent on annihilating its 1.5 million inhabitants, the narrative plunges...
- 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
- 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...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): early 21st
With Sophie still missing in action after their explosive mission in Paris, Lil decides to take matters into her own hands. On a new mission for the Secret Service Bureau, can Lil find Sophie in misty, mysterious St Petersburg?...
St Petersburg: Three Centuries of Murderous Desire
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): 1700s onwards
St Petersburg has always felt like an impossible metropolis, risen from the freezing mists and flooded marshland of the River Neva on the western edge of Russia. It was a new capital in an old country. Established in 1703...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor’s office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro...
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