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Larissa Salmina was a wild child of the USSR who rose to be Keeper of Italian Drawings at the Hermitage; Francis Haskell was a distinguished, deracinated Cambridge art historian. They met in... read more

Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent

Iain Pears

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Deep-cover players of the waiting game for influence and action.

The Illegals: Russia’s Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infi ...

Shaun Walker

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Sociable, intriguing and entertaining: Princess Juliane-Henriette-Ulrike of Saxe-Coburg escaped her early, abusive marriage to the Grand Duke Konstantin to live in Germany and Switzerland. H... read more

The Rebel Romanov

Helen Rappaport

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How do you write music to serve the socialist state? Yet that is what a generation of Russian composers had to do. Some produced superb music; many more suffered terribly in the Gulag.

The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin ...

Michel Krielaars

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The Decembrists are often referred to in passing in other books on Russian history, as if they were not really serious. But they were important, and their story is fascinating and moving.

The First Russian Revolution: The Decembrist Revolt of 1825 ...

Susanna Rabow-Edling

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A compulsive political thriller that takes us deep into the Kremlin and the psychology of authoritarianism: at its heart is Putin's chief spin-doctor, the still centre of a delirious propaga... read more

The Wizard of the Kremlin

Giuliano da Empoli

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A sequel to The Morning Star, partly set in Russia.

The Wolves of Eternity

Karl Ove Knausgaard

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Twenty-seven remarkable people, including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Hannah Arendt, Gidon Kremer, Romain Gary, Mark Rothko, Arvo Pärt: their stories interwoven with the historical, ethnic and pol... read more

Baltic Souls: Fate in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania ...

Jan Brokken

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The February 1917 Revolution and Tsar Nicholas's doomed failure to reform: a close and riveting account.

The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Roman ...

Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

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The complete letters, those written in French as well as Russian.

Pushkin’s Letters: Annotated Authoritative Edition ...

Alexander Pushkin

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Nikolai Vavilov was the great Russian agronomist who dedicated his life to the improvement of cereal crops and created the world's largest seed bank at Pavlosk. During the Siege of Leningrad... read more

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifi ...

Simon Parkin

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MG is one of the foremost - and readable - scholars of Russian security. Recent events give bite to his historical analysis.

Forged in War: A Military History of Russia from Its Beginnings to Tod ...

Mark Galeotti

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Sullivan was US ambassador in Moscow for most of the period 2019-2022; he retired from his post six months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia’s Wa ...

John J. Sullivan

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A memoir that the late opposition leader and dissident began after his poisoning in 2020.

Patriot

Alexei Navalny

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Life in the Soviet Union as a series of tragi-comic stories - by the author of Last Summer in Baden Baden.

The Bridge Over The Neroch And Other Works

Leonid Tsypkin

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Humorous, dour, absurdist: a selection of short stories by the author of We, in a new translation.

X and Other Stories

Yevgeny Zamyatin

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A carefully annotated, illustrated catalogue to the remarkable costumes and paraphernalia acquired in Siberia and Mongolia in the 1930s by two Danish travellers - Henning Haslund-Christensen... read more

Mongol Shamans: Shaman Costumes at the National Museum of Denmark ...

Rolf Gilberg

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A Russian folktale about a boy who finds a magic ring and tries to win the hand of a princess. For ages 5-8.

The Magic Ring

Boris Shergin

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The outlines of this diplomatic mission may have been written about before but what makes this book so enjoyable is the character of the British ambassador, Archie Clark Kerr, about whom his... read more

The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War ...

Giles Milton

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From the author of several books on the region, an important account of the rise of Russian aggression.

Hubris: The Origins of Russia’s War Against Ukraine ...

Jonathan Haslam

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Chekhov's biographer and the premier translator from Georgian has been working on this for years (in between publishing projects). Its publication is a triumph.

‘A Seditious and Sinister Tribe’: The Crimean Tatars and T ...

Donald Rayfield

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Smuggled out of the Soviet Union in 1982, this novel first appeared in English in 1987 and soon disappeared, to be resurrected thanks to Susan Sontag's enthusiasm for a 'scruffy-looking' cop... read more

Summer in Baden-Baden

Leonid Tsypkin

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By two sharp observers of Russia.

Downfall: Prigozhin and Putin, and the New Fight for the Future of Rus ...

Anna Arutunyan

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A memoir of her multifarious travels, rich with culinary ideas - Russian railway pies, Sultanahmet in the snow, Polish cloudberries... Eden's latest book is imbued with her knowledge and lov... read more

Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Journeys

Caroline Eden

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The Volga: A History of Russia’s Greatest River ...

Janet M. Hartley

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Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Tsar and his Family ...

Robert K. Massie

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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Surviving Katyn: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Tru ...

Jane Rogoyska

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A new collection of short stories by one of Russia's foremost contemporary writers, author of The Big Green Tent, Daniel Stein, Interpreter and others. There is remarkably little of her work... read more

The Body of the Soul: Stories

Ludmila Ulitskaya

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A lively narrative history on this frenzied era of revolutionary art.

The Avant-Gardists: Artists in Revolt in the Russian Empire and the So ...

Sjeng Scheijen

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After the Armistice in 1918, the Allies' support for anyone contra-German mutated into anti-Bolshevik Intervention. Forces were deployed in Archangel, the Caucasus, the Far East and elsewher... read more

A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revo ...

Anna Reid

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Everything Flows

Vasily Grossman

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Volume1 of this superb illustrated history came out in 2021.

History of the Caucasus: Volume 2

Christoph Baumer

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Reconsiders the Revolution as part of a longer span of change, from the outbreak of WW1 to the death of Lenin.

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 ...

Robert Service

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After this scathing critique of her native country, the author probably won't be returning soon.

I Love Russia: Reporting from a Lost Country

Elena Kostyuchenko

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Comic and melancholic: tales of very human frailty.

The Beauties: Essential Stories

Anton Chekhov

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