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- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 20th Century
Published in the USA as The Last Russian Doll. In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land … … Rosie lived peacefully in Moscow and her mother told her fairy tales. One summer night, all that came abruptly to...
- Location(s): Auschwitz/Birkenau, Europe, Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2003 looking back
In January 2003, the Berest family receive a mysterious, unsigned postcard. On one side was an image of the Opéra Garnier; on the other, the names of their relatives who were killed in Auschwitz: Ephraïm, Emma, Noémie and Jacques....
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): Late 1930s
Russia in 1938 is a place of great terror. Joseph Stalin is in charge. His Secret Police are everywhere, searching for anyone who might be his enemy. People have no idea who they can trust. Seven-year-old Shura doesn’t know...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1938
Russia in 1938 is a place of great terror. Joseph Stalin is in charge. His Secret Police are everywhere, searching for anyone who might be his enemy. People have no idea who they can trust. Seven-year-old Shura doesn’t know...
- Location(s): Siberia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1930s
Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd,...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): pre-Russian revolution
As the Russia of Nicholas and Aleksandra rushes full speed toward catastrophe, The Romanov Bride follows the lives of two revolutionary souls, that of Grand Duchess Elisavyeta (or Ella), sister of the tsaritsa Aleksandra, and that of Pavel, a...
- Location(s): Russia, St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Turn of 20th Century
Barely nineteen, Minnie knows that her station in life as a Danish princess is to leave her family and enter into a royal marriage—as her older sister Alix has done, moving to England to wed Queen Victoria’s eldest son....
The Russia Chronicles: Streets of Moscow
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Adventure, Fiction
- Era(s): 2007-2030
Separated from his parents on a family vacation, 16-year-old Peter Greenfield must survive with the help of homeless youth who live in the tunnels of Moscow’s secret Second Subway. Book One in a series that follows Peter and his...
The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Magical Realism, Fiction
- Era(s): Later 20th Century
In her very dusty provincial museum of fake exhibits lovingly crafted from cardboard, wire and glue, Tanya dreams of Russian art’s long colours and wonders when Yuri will stop fishing long enough to notice how she adores him, while...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Mid 20th Century
‘A love affair through an interpreter,’ said Raya. ‘That’s a very cultured prospect.’ Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon is with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who...
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