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- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th century
St Petersburg,1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia’s capital city. Welcomed into the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. With her looks and talents,...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Crime, Short Stories
- Era(s): Modern
“crime fiction featuring hard-boiled cynical characters and bleak sleazy settings.” Dirty dealings in the middle of the night, in the snow, very louche, stereotypical Moscow? Judge for yourself
- Location(s): Courchevel, Italy, Moscow
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 2000s
The violent death of a journalist leads secret agent Gabriel Allon to Russia. But this is not the grim Moscow of Soviet times, but a new Moscow, awash in oil wealth and in thrall to a new generation of...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1990s
Travelling across the former Soviet Union is a challenge at the best of times – but in a dilapidated VDub… that’s got to be plain daft… hasn’t it? I was in my prime, hungry to make a mark on...
- Location(s): Berlin, Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
February 1941, wartime Berlin. Brilliant, idealistic young detective Georg Heuser joins the Murder Squad in the midst of the biggest manhunt the city has ever seen. A serial killer is slaughtering women on S-Bahn trains and leaving their battered...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Modern
A Russian honey trap agent targets a young CIA operative to uncover a senior-ranking mole at the heart of the Russian Intelligence service. Dominika Egorov, former prima ballerina, is sucked into the heart of Putin’s Russia, the country she...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1920
It is 1920, central Russia. The Red Terror tightens its hold. Kolya has deserted his Red Army unit and returns home to bury his brother and reunite with his wife and sons. But he finds the village silent and...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Short Stories
- Era(s): Various
Russka is the story of the history of the Russian heartland, in Edward Rutherfurd’s proven style. He traces family stories through short stories.
- Location(s): Russia, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 20th Century
Winter, 1916. In St Petersburg, snow is falling in a country on the brink of revolution. Beautiful and headstrong, Sashenka Zeitlin is just sixteen. As her mother parties with Rasputin and her dissolute friends, Sashenka slips into the frozen...
- Location(s): Moscow, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Late 1990s -2000s
That’s what the Russians call them – the bodies that float up into the light in the thaw. Drunks, most of them, and homeless people who just give up and lie down into the whiteness, and murder victims hidden...
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