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- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): 1950s
This is a thriller set in 1950s Stalinist Russia, a regime that balks at nothing and executes opponents without conscience. It wanted to be seen as the perfect society. A series of brutal murders shatter this image, but if...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1723-1741
When they took everything from her, they didn’t count on her fighting to get it back… Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and Catherine I, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the world’s loveliest Princess...
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov – recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt – is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving...
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
- Location(s): Chechnya
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Turn of 21st Century
The story of eight people (and a nation) navigating two brutal wars, it’s a novel of loyalty and sacrifice and enduring love.
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 19th Century
A great setting of 19th Century St Petersburg for this crime novel
A Mountain of Crumbs: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1900s
- Location(s): Afghanistan, Russia, United States (USA)
- Genre(s): Thriller
- Era(s): Second half of the 20th Century
Agent 6, the third and final outing for the conflicted former MGB officer, brings the trilogy of novels to a resounding climax. Leo’s new civilian life with his wife Raisa and his family has acquired equilibrium, but the USSR...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): 1980s
Among the Russians is a marvellous account of a solitary journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia. A gifted writer and intrepid traveller, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction
In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Slowly recovering from a terrible accident, Natalia is faced with a devastating choice – to return to the cutthroat world of Russian ballet that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever – in this sweeping novel of love...
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