If you're looking to dive a little deeper into this fascinating country, check out these fictional books that take place in in the motherland.
Inspired by Russian fairy tales, the story follows the experiences of a wild young
girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her
father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.
After the fall of Communism and a vote on the part of the Russian people
to bring back the Tsar, to be chosen from the distant relatives of
Nicholas II, Atlanta attorney Miles Lord heads for Moscow with the
assignment to perform a background check on one of the candidates, but
his assignment soon turns unexpectedly dangerous.
Anna is a sophisticated
woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns
to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic
consequences.
A man must endure relentless physical and metal punishments as retribution for his act of murder.
In
Stalin's Soviet Union, it's a crime against the State to suggest that a
murderer--much less a serial killer--is in the midst of the populace.
Exiled from his home, a war hero must find and stop a criminal that the
State won't admit even exists.
In Moscow, American history professor Fluke Kelso learns from secret
papers that Stalin had a son. A momentous discovery that could
revolutionize Russia by bringing back Stalinism. But first he has to
find him and that could get Kelso killed.
In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during
World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman,
recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of
Leningrad.
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is sentenced to house arrest in the grand hotel Metropol. Rostov has never worked a day in his life, and must
now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in
Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors.
Marrying the Romanov heir, nineteen-year-old Danish princess Minnie becomes empress
of Russia and treads a perilous path of compromise in a beloved but
resistance-torn country where her son becomes the last tsar.
Documenting his grandparents' experiences during the siege of Leningrad,
a young writer learns his grandfather's story about how a military
deserter and he tried to secure pardons by gathering hard-to-find
ingredients for a powerful colonel's daughter's wedding cake.
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