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- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1910s
A city in flames. A revolution raging. A woman on the run. Nadezhda has never wanted to be a witch. But the occult is in her blood. Her mother, Militza, conjured Rasputin and introduced him into the Romanov court,...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Era(s): 19th Century
This tense, gripping novel set in 19C St Petersburg amid desperate revolutionaries bent on the overthrow of the Tsar ‘confirms Andrew William’s place in the front ranks of English thriller writers’ (Daily Mail). Shortlisted for the CWA Ellis Peters...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad), Stockholm
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1770s, 1990s
To The Hermitage is Sir Malcolm Bradbury’s first novel in nearly a decade, and its length and ambition provide some clue as to why it has been so long in the making. The novel begins with the arrival of...
- Location(s): Russia
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1930s
Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia, 1933: Sofia Morozova knows she has to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour: the prospect of one day walking free: and the stories told by...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 2001 looking back
The story opens in 2001, when sisters Nina, both in their 40s, are facing major life changes. Fact and fiction are interwoven into the story as they look back over their Father’s life in Russia
- Location(s): Moscow
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): Late 1900s
They lay peacefully, even artfully, under their thawing crust of ice, the centre one on its back, hands folded as if for a religious funeral, the other two turned, arms out under the ice like flanking emblems on embossed...
- Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
- Genre(s): Crime
- Era(s): 19th Century
A great setting of 19th Century St Petersburg for this crime novel
- 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): Siberia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 2010
In Consolations of the Forest, Sylvain Tesson explains how he found a radical solution to his need for freedom, one as ancient as the experiences of the hermits of old Russia: he decided to lock himself alone in a...
- Location(s): Kaliningrad (Königsberg)
- Genre(s): Crime
Hanno Stiffeniis, a rural magistrate, is asked come to Königsberg to solve a series of murders that have caused terror in the city: set against the Napoleonic Wars 1803/4.
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