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The Little Russian

The Little Russian
  • Author(s): Susan Sherman
  • 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...

The Lost Crown

The Lost Crown
  • Author(s): Sarah Miller
  • 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...

The Lost Daughter

The Lost Daughter
  • Author(s): Gill Paul
  • 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...

The Lost Pianos of Siberia

The Lost Pianos of Siberia
  • Author(s): Sophy Roberts
  • 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...

The Madonnas of Leningrad

The Madonnas of Leningrad
  • Author(s): Debra Dean
  • 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,...

The Matiushin Case

The Matiushin Case
  • Author(s): Oleg Pavlov
  • 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...

The Mercenary

The Mercenary
  • Author(s): Paul Vidich
  • 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...

The New Silk Roads

The New Silk Roads
  • Author(s): Peter Frankopan
  • 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...

The Night Watch

The Night Watch
  • Author(s): Sergei Lukyanenko
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Paranormal
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Walking the streets of Moscow, indistinguishable from the rest of its population, are the Others. Possessors of supernatural powers and capable of entering the Twilight, a shadowy parallel world existing in parallel to our own, each Other owes allegiance...

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories

The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
  • Author(s): Nikolai Gogol
  • 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,”...

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