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- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Fantasy
- Era(s): various centuries
In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, an elderly servant tells stories of sorcery, folklore and the Winter King to...
- 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 –...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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;...
- 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
- 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...
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