A chilly outing for disgraced Colonel Alexander Vasin (whom we've met in a variety of scrapes in Black Sun and Red Traitor), fleeing across the wintry Siberian tundra with a man and a secret... read more
The great novelist-in-exile examines the troubled relationship between the Russian state and its citizens, using the past to cast light on the present.
How Stalin isolated and pampered Western journalists in the gilded cage of the Metropol Hotel in order to control their output: their translators were often paid to share their beds, but oth... read more
A witness to the Beslan massacre, the former Moscow correspondent sought to ease his soul and deepen his understanding of the roots of violence by taking a 1000-mile walk along the political... read more
Fritz D?rries was a German entomologist who first travelled to Siberia as a young man in 1877. He went on to spend a total of twenty-two years there, encountering tigers, bandits, vipers and... read more