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- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Travles through this bleak area of the map. Not so bleak, actually! Track the authors travels on a map, enjoy the wry humour,as he travels around this little known part of the world.
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Russian Revolution
“”Romance, adventure, magic and history blend seamlessly into a story that is… historically sensitive and gloriously thrilling.” –Kirkus, starred review” Natalya knows a secret. A magical Faberge egg glows within the walls of Russia’s Winter Palace. It holds a...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 18th Century
Spring 1699: Illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta has survived the brutal Russian winter in her remote Baltic village. Sold by her family into household labour at the age of fifteen, Marta survives by committing a crime that will...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1958
1958. In a dorm room in Moscow, a young writer is woken by the sound of angry voices on the radio. Through the fog of a hangover he hears the news that a novel called Doctor Zhivago has earned...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 1800s
At a glittering society party in St Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon’s army marches on Russia, and the lives of three young people are changed forever....
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Science Fiction/Future
- Era(s): Soviet era / future
A seminal work of dystopian fiction that foreshadowed the worst excesses of Soviet Russia, Yevgeny Zamyatin’s We is a powerfully inventive vision that has influenced writers from George Orwell to Ayn Rand. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Post Russian Revolution
Ayn Rand’s first published novel, a timeless story that explores the struggles of the individual against the state in Soviet Russia. First published in 1936, We the Living portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings...
- Location(s): Russia, Pripyat/Chernobyl
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): early 2000s
Chernobyl: the Zone of Exclusion. A ghostly place, deserted and forgotten for almost two decades; now inhabited by militia, shady scavengers, a few reckless scientists, and some elderly Ukrainian peasants . . . This is the eerie and dangerous...
- Location(s): Washington DC, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1980s
Set against the backdrop of Cleveland Heights, a Washington, D.C. neighborhood during the 1980s, when the US feared of nuclear attack from Russia, You Are One of Them is a story of trust and betrayal, not among nations, but...
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