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- 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): Paris, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Contemporary, World War 2
A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of “Dreams of My Russian Summers”. In “The Life of an Unknown Man”, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia’s...
- 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?...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1725
A magical, captivating tale of adventure set in imperial Russia. St Petersburg, Russia 1725. Katinka Dashkova is running for her life because everything she knows is changing. Katinka, a dazzling ballerina with a hunched back, and her friends Alexei...
- 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): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): ariousV
Ordinary realities and yearnings to transcend them lead to miraculous other worlds in this dazzling collection of stories. A woman’s deceased father appears in her dreams with clues about the afterlife; a Russian professor in a small American town...
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...
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Four works by great 19th-century Russian author: “The Nose,” a savage satire of Russia’s incompetent bureaucrats; “Old-Fashioned Farmers,” a pleasant depiction of an elderly couple living in rustic seclusion; “The Tale of How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich,”...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1940s/1980s
It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Galina’s artist father Mikhail has been kept away...