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Burying the Sun Burying the Sun Gloria Whelan Too young for the army, one boy takes saving the city into his own hands. The Russian city of Leningrad is darkening with winter and war, and Georgi's family prepares for the worst. His sister, Marya… OL14866609W
Saving Zasha Saving Zasha Randi G. Barrow In 1944 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia… OL15586776W
Anastasia and her sisters Anastasia and her sisters Carolyn Meyer A novel in diary form in which the youngest daughter of Czar Nicholas II describes the privileged life her family led up until the time of World War I and the tragic events that befell them. This no… OL19997989W
Blood red snow white Blood red snow white Marcus Sedgwick When writer Arthur Ransome leaves his unhappy marriage in England and moves to Russia to work as a journalist, he has little idea of the violent revolution about to erupt. Unwittingly, he finds himse… OL20039409W
Red shadow Red shadow Paul Dowswell Russia, 1940. Fifteen year old Misha's life is about to transform when his father is offered a job in Stalin's inner circle. They move into a luxurious apartment in the Kremlin, but doubts about the … OL20983281W
The lost crown The lost crown Sarah Miller In alternating chapters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia tell how their privileged lives as the daughters of the Tsar in early twentieth-century Russia are transformed by World Wa… OL21182330W
Natasha's Will Natasha's Will Joan Lingard Natasha's story is set against the background of the Russian Revolution as she and her family flee persecution. Her story is dramatically and cleverly linked with the present as her heirs search for … OL2405124W
The sound of the dragon's feet The sound of the dragon's feet Alkē Zeē The time spent with her "revolutionary" tutor opens 10-year-old Sasha's eyes to more of life in turn-of-the-century Russia than her somewhat sheltered existence had previously allowed her to experien… OL2480733W
Доктор Живаго Доктор Живаго Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ***This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987.*** One of the results of its publication in the… OL258301W
Anastasia, the last Grand Duchess Anastasia, the last Grand Duchess Carolyn Meyer Anastasia has gotten a new diary and writes about her life,her family, and what she goes. This book starts on a holiday in 1914 and ends when Anastasia goes to Saint Petersburg in 1918. OL56858W
The Fetch The Fetch Laura Whitcomb After 350 years as a Fetch, or death escort, Calder breaks his vows and enters the body of Rasputin, whose spirit causes rebellion in the Land of Lost Souls while Calder struggles to convey Ana and A… OL5721740W
Three lives for the Czar Three lives for the Czar Stephanie Plowman Andrei Hamilton relates the history of his family's relationship with Russia's imperial family and his own growing up years in St. Petersburg in the period preceding World War I. OL6922782W
Forever nineteen Forever nineteen Grigoriĭ Baklanov,Grigoriĭ I͡Akovlevich Baklanov The experiences of a nineteen-year-old Soviet lieutenant on the front during World War II as he defends his Russian homeland from the Nazis. OL966637W