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Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914

Anastasia: The Last Grand Duchess, Russia, 1914
  • Author(s): Carolyn Meyer
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1914

Award-winning author Carolyn Meyer’s ANASTASIA is back in print with a gorgeous new package! Thirteen-year-old Anastasia is the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II, ruler of Russia. Anastasia is used to a life of luxury; her major concerns are...

And Quiet Flows the Don

And Quiet Flows the Don
  • Author(s): Mikhail Sholokhov
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

The epic novel of love, war and revolution from Mikhail Sholokhov, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature An extraordinary Russian masterpiece, And Quiet Flows the Don follows the turbulent fortunes of the Cossack people through peace, war and...

Angel on the Square

Angel on the Square
  • Author(s): Gloria Whelan
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1914

In the fall of 1914, safe behind palace walls, Katya Ivanova sees St. Petersburg as a magical place. The daughter of a lady-in-waiting to the Empress, Katya spends all her time with the Grand Duchesses; the royal family feels...

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina
  • Author(s): Leo Tolstoy
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1870s

Anna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger. Tolstoy clashed with editor Mikhail Katkov over political issues that arose in the final...

Archangel

Archangel
  • Author(s): Robert Harris
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

When historian Fluke Kelso learns of the existence of a secret notebook belonging to Josef Stalin he is determined to track it down, whatever the consequences. From the violent political intrigue and decadence of modern Moscow he heads north...

Arctic Star

Arctic Star
  • Author(s): Tom Palmer, Tom Clohosy Cole (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Plymouth, Russia
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): 1943, WW2

Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer returns with a thrilling naval adventure inspired by the incredible history of the Second World War Arctic convoys. Winter 1943. Teenagers Frank, Joseph and Stephen are Royal Navy recruits on their first mission at sea...

Arctic Sun

Arctic Sun
  • Author(s): Jack Grimwood
  • Location(s): Kola Peninsula, Russia
  • Genre(s): Political, Thriller
  • Era(s): 1980s

Kola Peninsula, 1987. High in the Soviet Arctic, a tiny village houses an apocalyptic secret . . . When research zoologist Dr Amelia Blackburn ventures north to investigate the ravages of the Chernobyl reactor meltdown, she stumbles on the...

Back to Moscow

Back to Moscow
  • Author(s): Guillermo Erades
  • Location(s): Moscow
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Early 2000s

The early 2000s, and Martin, an expat student recently arrived in Moscow to write a doctoral thesis on the heroines of Russian literature, needs all the guidance he can get to fathom the mysterious Russian soul. Distracted from his...

Behind the Red Veil

Behind the Red Veil
  • Author(s): Frank Thoms
  • Location(s): Russia
  • Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
  • Era(s): Later 20th Century

Frank Thoms went to the Soviet Union not to judge but to learn. As a result, he gained the trust and confidence of the people he befriended—and discovered much about himself. Behind the Red Veil recounts Frank’s quest to...

Between Shades Of Gray

Between Shades Of Gray
  • Author(s): Ruta Sepetys
  • Location(s): Lithuania, Russia
  • Genre(s): Young Adult, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1941

The haunting and powerful Second World War novel by Ruta Sepetys that inspired the feature film, ASHES IN THE SNOW, OUT NOW. One night fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother and young brother are hauled from their home by Soviet guards,...

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