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43) Tsarina
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Language
English
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"Before there was Catherine the Great, there was Catherine Alexeyevna: the first woman to rule Russia in her own right. Ellen Alpsten's rich, sweeping first-person narrative is the story of her rise to power. St. Petersburg, 1725. Peter the Great lies dying in his magnificent Winter Palace. The weakness and treachery of his only son has driven his father to an appalling act of cruelty and left the empire without an heir. Russia risks falling into...
45) Philipok
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Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Philipok's mother has told him that he is too young to go to school, but one day he sets out to go on his own.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
Description
"Snow-dusted or sun-kissed steppe and taiga, the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall - the Trans-Siberian routes unite landscapes and experiences into the journey of a lifetime. * Trans-Mongolian route * Trans-Manchurian route * Baikal-Amur Mainline * Moscow and Beijing."--
48) Radiant angel
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Vasily Petrov, a colonel in the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service posing as a diplomat with the Russian U.N. Mission, mysteriously disappears from a Russian oligarch's party in Southampton, it's up to Corey to track him down. What are the Russians up to and why? Is there a possible nuclear threat, a so-called radiant angel? Will Corey find Petrov and put a stop to whatever he has planned before it's too late?
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
This whimsical children's picture book is one of numerous remarkable collaborations between artist and illustrator Vladimir Lebedev and poet, translator and children's writer Samuil Marshak, many of which are now in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. This volume reproduces the original book in size, shape and layout, with new English translations in place of the Russian and an accompanying text by curator Sarah Suzuki. The dynamic...
53) Beanpole
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
54) Moscow
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Swoon beneath the colorful onion domes and riotous design of beloved St Basil's Cathedral Step into Red Square and surround yourself with centuries of Russian politics and intrigue Sip a cocktail and contemplate Moscow's contemporary art while DJs spin tunes Discover the villages of yesteryear Russia amid the rolling countryside of the Golden Ring.
55) Patriot
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English
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In corrupt Russia, an erratic Vladimir Putin is determined to forge his country into a formidable superpower once again. He intends to redraw the map of Europe, and will go to impossible extremes to realize his fantasies -- including shooting down a civilian airliner packed with tourists bound for China. Kremlin scientists have developed a radical new weapon that could forever alter modern warfare. NATO, locked in a tense standoff over Ukraine, Poland,...
56) The Return
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Russian
Description
Having a fatherless childhood, young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown closer than most siblings. But when they least expect it, the father the boys have never known returns. Under the cool midnight sun of a coastal Russian summer, the boys eagerly hop into a car for a fishing trip with a complete stranger they absolutely need to believe is their father. As they travel deep into the wilderness, their journey devolves from vacation to boot camp to...
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English
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From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known...
58) Red Notice
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Language
English
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Freezing Order, the follow-up to Red Notice, is available now! "[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar's Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browder's business saga meshes well with the story of corruption and murder in Vladimir Putin's Russia, making Red Notice an early candidate...
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