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The Last Days of the Romanov Dancers
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1914
Petrograd, 1914. A country on a knife edge. The story of two people caught in the middle – with everything to lose… A stunning debut from a talented new Australian voice in historical fiction. Valentina Yershova’s position in the...
- Location(s): Russia, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Looking back to early 20th Century
This is the USA title. The same as The Porcelain Doll. A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union,...
- Location(s): Ukraine, Moscow, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1903-1920
The Little Russian spotlights an exciting new and assured voice in historical fiction. The novel tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow––a life filled with...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia. Like the fingers on a hand–first headstrong Olga, then Tatiana the tallest, Maria most hopeful for a ring, and Anastasia the smallest. These are the daughters of Tsar Nicholas II, grand duchesses living a...
- Location(s): Australia, Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1919 - 1973
A Russian princess. An extraordinary sacrifice. A captivating secret… From the author of The Secret Wife, a gripping journey through decades and across continents, of love, devastating loss and courage against all odds. 1918 With the country they once...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Nonfiction
- Era(s): Modern looking back
Siberia’s story is traditionally one of exiles, penal colonies and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos – grand instruments created during the boom years of the nineteenth century, and...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1941
The Madonnas of Leningrad, the first novel by Seattle professor Debra Dean, is the story of Marina, a young museum docent who takes refuge in the Hermitage during the 1941 siege of Leningrad. The paintings and artifacts are gone,...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): end of Soviet era
The Matiushin Case is one of the darkest and most powerful works of fiction to appear in Russian in the last twenty years. Deriving, like Captain of the Steppe (And Other Stories, 2013), from the author’s own traumatic experience...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Espionage, Thriller
- Era(s): 1980s
From acclaimed spy novelist Paul Vidich comes a taut new thriller following the attempted exfiltration of a KGB officer from the ever-changing—and always dangerous—USSR in the mid-1980s. Moscow, 1985. The Soviet Union and its communist regime are in the...
- Location(s): China, Europe, Middle East, Russia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Current
When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up...
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