Russia category: 2582 books
by Fabio Paone, Massimo Magazzù, Illustrazioni Di Francesco Magazzù
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Due romani, una russa, un viaggio nella patria di Lenin e Dostoevskij, in quel dell’agosto 2005. Ad aspettarli una rete di amici e un programma di visite turistiche nelle bellissime Mosca e San Pietroburgo; l’idea, l’illusione di una vacanza rilassante, confortevole. Fabio, Maga e Masha saranno...
The Collector
The Story of Sergei Shchukin and His Lost Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
A fascinating life of Sergei Shchukin, the great collector who changed the face of Russia’s art world
Sergei Shchukin was a highly successful textiles merchant in the latter half of the nineteenth century, but he also had a great eye for beauty. He was one of the first to appreciate the qualities...
Lina & Serge
The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
This account of the renowned composer’s neglected wife—including her years in a Soviet prison—is “a story both riveting and wrenching” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Serge Prokofiev was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant composers yet is an enigma to historians and...
Stalin's Daughter
The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
PEN Literary Award Finalist
New York Times Notable Book
Washington Post Notable Book
Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns...
by Simon Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2009
“[A] superb biography….Scholarly, refreshing, commonsensical, and compelling, vividly portraying the charismatic Empress and her times.”
—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Sashenka
Simon Dixon’s Catherine the Great is a complete and revealing portrait of an extraordinary...
by Eugenia Ginzburg
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2002
Both witness to and victim of Stalin’s reign of terror, a courageous woman tells the story of her harrowing eighteen-year odyssey through Russia’s prisons and labor camps. Translated by Paul Stevenson and Max Hayward. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
My First Trip to The Homeland: In Search of Abandoned Treasures Behind the Iron Curtain
Travels with Tania
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Although fluent in Russian, I have traveled to my homeland only once in my life, in the depressive years of the Soviet Union’s Communist existence. That trip, in 1977, was occasioned by my position as an executive of a supercomputer company whose products were highly desired by the Soviets. As a...
by Philip Pomper
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2010
The gripping untold story of a terrorist leader whose death would catapult his brother—Lenin—to revolution.
In 1886, Alexander Ulyanov, a brilliant biology student, joined a small group of students at St. Petersburg University to plot the assassination of Russia’s tsar. Known as “Second...
Caught in the Revolution
Petrograd, Russia, 1917 - A World on the Edge
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters, Caught in the Revolution is Helen Rappaport's masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness accounts left by foreign nationals who saw the drama unfold.
Between the first revolution in February...
by Edvard Radzinsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
From the bestselling author of Stalin and The Last Tsar comes The Rasputin File, a remarkable biography of the mystical monk and bizarre philanderer whose role in the demise of the Romanovs and the start of the revolution can only now be fully known.
For almost a century, historians could only...
Rasputin
Faith, Power, and the Twilight of the Romanovs
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
On the centenary of the death of Rasputin comes a definitive biography that will dramatically change our understanding of this fascinating figure
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies, novels,...
The Zhivago Affair
The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
Drawing on newly declassified government files, this is the dramatic story of how a forbidden book in the Soviet Union became a secret CIA weapon in the ideological battle between East and West.
In May 1956, an Italian publishing scout took a train to a village just outside Moscow to visit...
A Writer at War
A Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Soviet Army's newspaper, and reported from the frontlines of the war. A Writer at War depicts in vivid detail the crushing conditions on the Eastern Front, and the lives and deaths of soldiers...
Is Journalism Worth Dying For?
Final Dispatches
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
A collection of final dispatches by the famed journalist, including the first translation of the work that may have led to her murder
Anna Politkovskaya won international fame for her courageous reporting. Is Journalism Worth Dying For? is a long-awaited collection of her final writing.
Beginning...