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Series
Publisher
Harper & Brothers
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Growing up as an orphan, Razumou adopted the belief that all of Russia was his family, a sentiment that he carries into his higher education. Because of this, when talks of revolution start arising in Russia, Razumou decides to stay neutral. However, this becomes increasingly difficult when most of his classmates start to express their ardent support for a revolution. Still, Razumou decides not to take a stand on either side. Since he feels all of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
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Description
Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt...
Author
Series
The Revolution of Marina M volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
"Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds, marked by deep passion, devastating loss, and the private...
Author
Series
Porfiry Petrovich mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Russia, 1910. Valentina Ivanova is the darling of St. Petersburg's elite aristocracy--until her romance with a Danish engineer creates a terrible scandal and her parents push her into a loveless engagement with a Russian count. Meanwhile, Russia itself is bound for rebellion. With the Tsar and the Duma at each other's throats, and the Bolsheviks drawing their battle lines, the elegance and opulence of Tsarist rule are in their last days. And Valentina...
11) Roulette
Author
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Miki Durand has always dodged the limelight. As the illegitimate daughter of a French movie star and a Russian billionaire, she craves a normal life- and it's almost within reach. She's up for a tenure-track position and has a perfect-on-paper boyfriend. What more could a woman want? But when an unforeseen tragedy knocks her off cruise control, Miki finds herself leaving sunny LA for cosmopolitan St. Petersburg. With the fate of her father's international...
Author
Series
Alexei Volkovoy series volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Introducing Russian gangster Alexei Volkovoy. A firefight reverberates through Moscow's dark streets; shattered glass and screams echo in the air. In the lawless ways of Russia's capital city, the gunmen melt away into the night. Two men are dead--the targets not what they seem. A shadowy figure known as Volk lopes along the riverbank outside the Kremlin walls. A battle-hardened veteran of Russia's brutal war in Chechnya, he prowls Moscow's grim alleyways,...
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Series
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2009, c2001
Language
English
Description
Leningrad 1941: the white nights of summer illuminate a city of fallen grandeur whose beautiful palaces and stately avenues speak of a different age, when Leningrad was known as St Petersburg. Two sisters, Tatiana and Dasha, share the same bed, living in one room with their brother and parents. It is a hard, impoverished life, yet the Metanovs know many who are not as fortunate as they. The family routine is shattered on 22 June 1941 when Hitler invades...
Author
Series
The Revolution of Marina M volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"After the events of The Revolution of Marina M., the young Marina Makarova finds herself on her own amid the devastation of the Russian Civil War---pregnant and adrift in the Russian countryside, forced onto her own resourcefulness to find a place to wait out the birth of her child. She finds new strength and self-reliance to fortify her in her sojourn, and to prepare her for the hardships and dilemmas still to come. When she finally returns to...
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Language
English
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"It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and...
Author
Publisher
Deanna Lynn Sletten
Pub. Date
2022]
Language
English
Description
1917- Sofiya and her friend Alina are forced to flee Russia as Tsar Nicolas II abdicates, and the Bolsheviks take control of St. Petersburg. Their parents sent them to America, where Alina's distant cousin lives, but soon the girls learn they have traded one danger for another. They are forced to ear a living in the most terrible way, and once again, both girls flee for their lives in separate directions. Years later, trapped in a bitter marriage,...
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