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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
Comprehensive picture of pre revolutionary upper-class Russian society and the revolutionary transition. Deals with the life of an intellectual and his heroic effort to preserve his capacity for reflection.
Yuri Zhivago, doctor and poet, lives and loves during the first three decades of 20th-century Russia.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"As daughters of the impoverished King of Montenegro, Militza and Stana must fulfill their duty to their father and leave their beloved home for St. Petersburg to be married into senior positions in the Romanov court. For their new alliances to the Russian nobility will help secure the future of the sisters' native country. Immediately, Militza and Stana feel like outcasts as the aristocracy shuns them for their provincial ways and for dabbling in...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
Author
Series
Russians series (Judith Pella) volume 6
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
As Russia plunges from World War I into the ensuing civil war between the Bolsheviks and an army of White Russians, Anna Fedorcenko's family is caught in the middle of conflicting national interests.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Interrogated by the provisional government of revolutionary Russia on the details of her father's death, Maria, the daughter of Rasputin, remembers her father's powerful influence over the throne and her struggles over the discovery of his true nature.