An extraordinary tale of patience and determination: Slaght has dedicated his life to save Blakiston's fish owl, a rare denizen of the taiga. His book is a revelation of the contemporary Rus... read more
JR wrote a superb novel ('Kozlowski') about the Katyn massacre. This book uses the testimonies of survivors and investigators to understand how the effects of the massacre rippled on for de... read more
Subtitled 'a true story of Russian money-laundering, state-sponsored murder, and surviving Vladimir Putin's wrath': BB's exposé of the Magnitsky affair and its subsequent international rami... read more
Reportage by the courageous foreign correspondent, a former Moscow bureau chief for the Guardian before his expulsion from Russia in 2011, and author of Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russ... read more
The author of several good books on Russian imperial history turns her attention to the array of gifted exiles in Paris after the Revolution: Nijinsky, Diaghilev, Bunin, Chagall, Stravinsky,... read more
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
From the C7th to the present day... It transported Vikings to the Caspian and was crucial in the Battle of Stalingrad... a remarkable account of diversity and strategic significance.
It seems the 'Mrs Burton' (born Ursula Kuczynski) who pedalled around the English countryside in 1942 was a colonel in the Red Army. Her life story is extraordinary.
Anna Roosevelt, Sarah Churchill and Kathleen Harriman all accompanied their fathers to the Yalta Conference. This is an intriguing account of their involvement and influence on events.
How Putin and his entourage of KGB men seized power in Russia, controlling the economy through a fiefdom of oligarchs, and have used that wealth to extend their own influence.
This hardba... read more
From the author of the biography of Shchukin comes the story of another extraordinary pre-Revolutionary Russian collector of European art. He spent 1.5 million francs on 486 paintings, which... read more
We heard about Molotov's library in Rachel Polonsky's superb Molotov's Magic Lantern (£12.99). Now we have a portrait of Stalin through the books he read - and he was an avid reader all his... read more
The legendary Russian pianist, friend of Pasternak and other greats, who fell from grace to live precariously on the fringes of Soviet society. EW is the author of fine biographies of Shosta... read more
Published to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the great impresario's birth. The names of those he worked with, those great and fabulous beings like Goncharova, Stravinsky, Picasso, Fokine,... read more