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Catherine the Great
Portrait of a Woman
by Robert K. Massie
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure young German princess who traveled to Russia at fourteen and rose to become one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Born into a minor noble family, Catherine transformed herself into Empress... (more)
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Eugene Onegin
A Novel in Verse
by Aleksandr Pushkin
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s Russia, Pushkin's verse novel follows the fates of three men and three women. Engaging, full of suspense, and varied in tone, it also portrays a large cast of other characters and offers the reader many literary, philosophical, and autobiographical digressions, often in a highly satrical vein. ... (more)
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Katerina: Book 1
The Gathering Storm
by Robin Bridges
St. Petersburg, Russia, 1888. As she attends a whirl of glittering balls, royal debutante Katerina Alexandrovna, Duchess of Oldenburg, tries to hide a dark secret: she can raise the dead. No one knows. Not her family. Not the girls at her finishing school. Not the tsar or anyone in her aristocratic circle. Katerina considers her talent a curse, not a gift. But when she uses her special skill to protect a member of... (more)
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Elizabeth: Grand Duchess of Russia
by Hugo Mager
Thoroughly researched and elegantly composed, this biography is the first to tell the story of Elizabeth, Grand Duchess of Russia, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who changed the course of European history when she rejected the suit of the future Kaiser of Germany to marry Grand Duke Serge of Russia. of photos.
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Rachel's Secret
by Shelly Sanders
Set in pre-revolutionary Russia, where tensions are high between the Jewish and Christian populations. Rachel, who is a Jew, and Sergei, a Christian, find their worlds torn apart by violence as lies about Jews leap off the pages of the local newspaper. Vicious riots break out on Easter Sunday, 1903, and when they finally end, almost three days later, Rachel finds that the person she loves most is dead and that her... (more)
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A Lifelong Passion : Nicholas and Alexandra
by Nicholas, Nicholas Romanov
The private correspondence and diaries of the Romanovs, obtained from the Russian State Archive, offer an intimate look at the romance of the tsar and tsarina and the most significant events of the early 1900s. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
by Nikolai Gogol
When Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself "amazed." "Here is real gaiety," he wrote, "honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places what poetry! . . . I still haven't recovered." More than a century and a half later, Nikolai Gogol's stories continue to delight readers the world over. Now a stunning new translation--from an award-winning team of... (more)
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The Romanovs
The Final Chapter
by Robert K. Massie
In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains- revealed finally after over seven decades-where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the... (more)
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Port Arthur Will Be My Grave
by Marcus Johnston
Almost 40 years before Pearl Harbor, the Japanese performed a sneak attack on a Russian fleet sheltered at a place called Port Arthur. This kicked off the Russo-Japanese War, a conflict that defined Japan as a modern military power. That same port was besieged for almost a year, defended courageously by the Imperial Russian Army, despite its poor leadership. This novel takes you behind the scenes of that epic... (more)
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Catherine the Great
by Simon Dixon
In 1745 a little-known German princess named Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst married the nephew of Empress Elizabeth of Russia. Seventeen years later she overthrew her husband to become Catherine the Great, one of the most celebrated monarchs in history, turning eighteenth-century Russia into arguably the largest and most powerful state since the fall of the Roman Empire. Admired for her achievements and satirized for... (more)
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Ampula Grina
by Vladislav Krapivin
Due to the restored monarchy the New Empire has overcome economic and social crisis. Yet the first publicly elected emperor died under strange circumstances and the new one hasn't been elected yet. Instead there is a Regent and his bureaucrats that lead the people of the Empire towards prosperity.For the public mechanism to function well, it is necessary to get rid of the litter. And the government... (more)