If you like Russian history or Russia as a setting in fiction books, check these out.
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Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak - Vintage
Format: Book
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This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987. One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel... |
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The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna
C W GORTNER - Ballantine Books
Format: Book
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For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish girl who became the mother of the last Russian tsar. Even from behind the throne, a woman can rule. Narrated by the mother of Russia's last tsar, this vivid, historically... |
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Your Mouth Is Lovely: A Novel
Nancy Richler - Ecco
Format: Book
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"Each winter I'm sure will be my last. Dust to dust, I find myself saying as my frozen fingers struggle to hold the pen with which I write these words to you, Ashes to ashes, I mutter, and nothing but suffering and joy in between. I've had my share. Hot and sharp -- I taste... |
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Eye of the Red Tsar: A Novel of Suspense (Inspector Pekkala Book 1)
Sam Eastland - Bantam Books
Format: Book
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This riveting suspense debut introduces both a stellar new voice and a remarkable detective, an outsider who must use his extraordinary talents to solve the one case that may redeem him. Shortly after midnight on July 17, 1918, the imprisoned family of Tsar Nicholas Romanov was awakened... |
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War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy, graf - Modern Library
Format: Book
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From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork. War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known... |
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The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
Robert Alexander - Viking
Format: Book
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It was a crime to horrify, fascinate, and mystify the ages. On the night of July 16, 1918, Bolshevik revolutionaries murdered the entire Russian royal family in a hail of gunfire. No one survived who might bear witness to what really happened on that mysterious and bloody night. Or so it was thought.... |
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The Crown and the Crucible (The Russians, Book 1)
Michael Phillips - Bethany House Publishers
Format: Paperback
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A magnificent saga of love and war, of political conflict and imminent change. Against the vast and formidable backdrop of pre-revolutionary Russia, the lives of two families become inextricably entwined. Anna Yevnovna Burenin, a peasant girl from the tiny village of Katyk, must leave... |
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The Coronation: A Fandorin Mystery
Boris Akunin - HighBridge Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Grand Duke Georgii Alexandrovich arrives in Moscow with three of his children for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II, who is fated to become the last Emperor of Russia. During an afternoon stroll in the park, Georgii's daughter Xenia is dragged away by bandits, only to be rescued... |
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I Was Anastasia: A Novel
Ariel Lawhon - Doubleday
Format: Book
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Ariel Lawhon, a rising star in historical suspense, unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she an imposter, the thief of another... |
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A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
Amor Towles - Viking
Format: Book
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He can't leave his hotel. You won't want to.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility - a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel.
In 1922, Count... |
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Tatiana and Alexander
Paullina Simons
Format: Book
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In this epic story of passion and war, Tatiana, eighteen years old, pregnant and widowed, escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. But the ghosts of her past do not rest easily. She becomes obsessed with the belief that her husband, Major Alexander Belov,... |
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The White Russian: A Novel
Tom Bradby
Format: Book
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January 1917—With St. Petersburg on the brink of revolution, Sandro Ruzsky, the city’s chief police investigator, returns from exile in Siberia only to be assigned a grisly case: the bodies of a young couple found on the ice of the frozen River Neva, just outside the Tsar’s... |
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The Siege: A Novel
Helen Dunmore - Grove Press
Format: Book
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Leningrad, September 1941. German forces surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in two generations, THE SIEGE draws us deep into the Levin family's struggle... |
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The Betrayal: A Novel
Helen Dunmore - Grove Press, Black Cat
Format: Paperback
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Internationally-acclaimed author Helen Dunmore follows her bestselling novel, The Siege, with a riveting and emotionally absorbing portrait of post-war Soviet Russia, a world of violence and terror, where the severest acts of betrayal can come from the most trusted allies.In 1952 Leningrad,... |
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