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The Bickford Fuse

The Bickford Fuse
  • Author(s): Andrey Kurkov, Boris Dralyuk (translator)
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): late 20th century

The Great Patriotic War is stumbling to a close, but a new darkness has fallen over Soviet Russia. And for a disparate, disconnected clutch of wanderers – many thousands of miles apart but linked by a common goal –...

The Big Red Train Ride

The Big Red Train Ride
  • Author(s): Eric Newby
  • Location(s): Russia, Central Asia
  • Genre(s): Travelogue
  • Era(s): 1970s

The only continuous land route between Western Europe and the Pacific coast of the USSR, the Trans-Siberian Railway covers nearly a 100 degrees of longitude, seven time zones and 5900 miles in a journey lasting 192 hours and 35...

The Blackbird Girls

The Blackbird Girls
  • Author(s): Anne Blankman
  • Location(s): Ukraine, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1986 and 1941

Like Ruta Sepetys for middle grade, Anne Blankman pens a poignant and timeless story of friendship that twines together moments in underexplored history. On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red...

The Book of Anna

The Book of Anna
  • Author(s): Carmen Boullosa
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Saint Petersburg, 1905. Behind the gates of the Karenin Palace, Sergei, son of Anna Karenina, meets Tolstoy in his dreams and finds reminders of his mother everywhere: the vivid portrait that the tsar intends to acquire and the opium-infused...

The Boy with Two Hearts

The Boy with Two Hearts
  • Author(s): Hamed Amiri
  • 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...

The Bright & the Pale

The Bright & the Pale
  • Author(s): Jessica Rubinkowski
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): N/A

Debut author Jessica Rubinkowski delivers the thrilling first book in an epic Russian folklore–inspired fantasy duology filled with page-turning romance, tragedy, magic, and monsters. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Sara Raasch! Seventeen-year-old Valeria is one of the...

The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov
  • Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th century

The Brothers Karamasov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sons–the impulsive and sensual Dmitri;...

The Castle of Tangled Magic

The Castle of Tangled Magic
  • Author(s): Sophie Anderson, Saara Katariina Söderlund (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Children, Fantasy

Magic awaits, all you have to do is believe… When thirteen-year-old Olia steps through a magical doorway, she discovers another land. A land tangled by magic, where hope is lost, and a scheming wizard holds all the power. Soon...

The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands

The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to The Wastelands
  • Author(s): Sarah Brooks
  • Location(s): China, Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Later 19th Century

Welcome aboard The Great Trans-Siberian Express. It is the end of the 19th Century and the world is awash with marvels. But there is nothing so marvellous as the Wastelands: a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing...

The Chosen Maiden

The Chosen Maiden
  • Author(s): Eva Stachniak
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Monte Carlo, Paris
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 20th century

Based on the famous dance siblings: Vaslav Nijinsky and his brilliant sister Bronislava (Bronia) this is a story of a remarkable dancer who charts her own course through the tumultuous years of early twentieth-century Europe. Beautifully blending fiction with...

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