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On a cold, bleak day in 1916, a mining pit in Siberia turns into a bloodbath when its miners attack each other, savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two men - a horrified scientist and Grigory Rasputin, trusted confidant of the tsar - hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the carnage. In the present day, FBI agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a new, disturbing case. A Russian embassy attache seems to have committed suicide...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility--a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, "Towles...
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Jack McColl novels volume 4
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In the fourth and final installment of David Downing's spy series, Jack McColl is sent to Soviet Russia, where the civil war is coming to an end. The Bolsheviks have won but the country is in ruins.
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W zimny ponury dzień roku 1916, w odkrywkowej kopalni w górach Uralu wybucha istne piekło. Górnicy w szoku zaczynają wzajemnie się atakować. Kilka chwil później, przerażony naukowiec oraz Grigorij Rasputin, zaufany powiernik cara, odpalają detonator i wysadzają kopalnię, by ukryć wszelkie dowody masakry.
Współcześnie. Agent FBI, Sean Reilly nieustannie poszukuje Reeda Corrigana, szpiega CIA ds. kontroli umysłu, który jego synowi
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"A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center. In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land... ...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother who liked to tell fairy tales and collect porcelain dolls. One summer night, everything...
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The triumphs, tragedies, passions, and struggles of successive generations of four families are shaped by the turbulent events and forces of Russian history, from ancient times to the twentieth century. Spanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, politics, and culture, Edward Rurtherford, author of the phenomenally successful Sarum: The Novel of England, tells a grand saga that is as multifaceted as Russia itself. Here is a story of a great civilization...
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After the Russian Revolution turns her world upside down, Anna, a young Russian countess, has no choice but to flee to England. Penniless, Anna hides her aristocratic background and takes a job as a servant in the household of the esteemed Westerholme family. Anna is overwhelmed by her new duties, and her instant attraction to Rupert, the handsome Earl of Westerholme. To make matters worse, Rupert appears to be falling for her, too. Anna finds it...
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" Austin Voronkov is many things. He is an engineer, an inventor, an immigrant from Russia to Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1913, where he gets a job at a rifle factory. At the house where he rents a room, he falls in love with a woman named Julia, who becomes his wife and the mother to his two children. When Austin is wrongly accused of attending anarchist gatherings his limited grasp of English condemns him to his fate as a deportee; retreating with...
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Catherine the Great muses on her life, her relentless battle between love and power, the country she brought into the glorious new century, and the bodies left in her wake. By the end of her life, she had accomplished more than virtually any other woman in history. She built and grew the Romanov empire, amassed a vast fortune of art and land, and controlled an unruly and conniving court. Now, in a voice both indelible and intimate, she reflects on...
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"St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives a life of luxury and comfort, by the side of his beautiful but spiteful wife, Princess Lara. But when Dimitri is confronted by the death and destruction wrought by a pogrom, he is taken aback. What did these people do to deserve such brutality?...
11) Deathless
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Set in an alternate version of St. Petersburg in the first half of the twentieth century, Marya Morevna, a clever child of the revolution, is transformed into the beautiful bride of Koschei the Deathless, a menacing overlord.
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From Catherine the Great up until the last Russian Empress, all of the Russian Tsarinas were, in fact, German. What brought them to Petrograd were marriages arranged in the royal courts of Europe. Once wed, the young bride was firmly in the straitjacket of the Russian monarchy. An individual personality and identity was denied, the sole purpose of her being became her role as custodian of centuries of Russian tradition and as figurehead to the Russian...
17) Idiota
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"Oto powieść, z utworów Dostojewskiego kto wie czy nie największa, na pewno zaś najgłębiej badająca mroczne tajniki duszy, a zarazem wzywająca do wytrwania w poszukiwaniu piękna jej wnętrza, chrześcijańskiej caritas, miłości współczującej i wybaczającej. Taki jest główny bohater, książę Lew Myszkin, który bez grosza przy duszy przyjeżdża do Rosji, by objąć spory majątek. Swej dobrotliwości, pokorze oraz irytującej wręcz...
18) Tolstovskiĭ dom
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"A novel about the lives of several families living in the famous Tolstoy apartment building in St. Petersburg. This book is about their lives, full of disappointments and success, the last few decades, and so on."--
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Opowieść o burzliwych dziejach polskiej szlachcianki i o próbach odzyskania przez nia carskiej korony, a także o stoczonej 4 lipca 1610 roku bitwie od Kłuszynem. Dowodzona przez hetmanaa Stanisława Żołkiewskiego jazda polska, licząca niespełna siedem tysięcy ludzi, starła wtedy na proch trzydziestopięciotysięczną armię rosyjsko-szwedzką. Spektakularnym skutkiem tej bitwy był hold, który polskiemu królowi złożył car Wasyl IV...
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Nadya is a mischievous kitchen girl in a Russian tavern. Having nearly drowned in the Iset River during the turmoil of the Revolution, she has no memory of her past and longs for the life she cannot remember. Then two young men arrive at the tavern and announce that Nadya's long-lost grandmother has sent them to find her. Yearning for family and friendship, she agrees to accompany them to Paris for the joyful reunion. Nadya eagerly embarks on her...
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