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- Location(s): Siberia, Poland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): WW2
An unforgettable love story set in Siberia during the Second World War and of living with impossible choices. Lena knows she hasn’t got long left. While a nurse administers morphine to ease her pain, she relives her life. Growing...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Espionage
- Era(s): 1970s
(The Moscow Wolves Series Book 2) The threats people hold over us are most often imagined. We even create them for ourselves. Ted moves to London to become a journalist but quickly slides into debt. Things look up when...
The Story Orchestra: The Nutcracker
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Music
Follow Clara on a magical Christmas adventure in this musical retelling of The Nutcracker ballet – push the button on each beautiful scene to hear the vivid sound of an orchestra playing from Tchaikovsky’s original score. It is Christmas...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): post Russian Revolution
Hiding her identity as the grand duchess daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, Daria Gradov looks back on her luxurious childhood in pre-revolutionary Russia, the machinations of an illiterate monk, and the circumstances that forced her to assume another life....
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): 1725
A magical, captivating tale of adventure set in imperial Russia. St Petersburg, Russia 1725. Katinka Dashkova is running for her life because everything she knows is changing. Katinka, a dazzling ballerina with a hunched back, and her friends Alexei...
- Location(s): Estonia, Scotland, Siberia
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1944 - 1992
Lovers separated by the Iron Curtain. Two women whose paths should never have crossed. A remarkable journey that changes all of their lives. Maria’s history is a lie. Washed up on the shores of Sweden in 1944, with no...
- Location(s): Russia, Belarus
- Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Looking back to WW2
Extraordinary stories from Soviet women who fought in the Second World War – from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have...
The Way a River Went: Following the Volga Through the Heart of Russia
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Modern
Thom Wheeler is not a man to be put off by the prospect of an uncharted, impractical or downright dangerous journey. Having accidentally introduced his old school friend Vicky to Dmitry, the Russian love of her life, at the...
The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 18th century
From award-winning author Eva Stachniak comes this passionate novel that illuminates, as only fiction can, the early life of one of historys boldest women. The Winter Palace tells the epic story of Catherine the Greats improbable rise to power...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
It’s strange that there’s no contemporary crime fiction coming out of Putin’s Russia, but Boris Akunin makes up for that with his intricate, allusive Erast Fandorin books, set at the turn of the last century.
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