moscow (russia)

The prizewinning memoir of one of the world?s great writers, about coming of age as an enemy of the people and finding her voice in Stalinist Russia.

Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.

"Follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America"--Back cover.

Discusses the collapse of the Soviet Union and the transfomation of Russia into a modern, highly literate, urban society through the life stories of the country's baby boomer generation, using interviews from men and women who graduated from high school in 1967 from two magnet secondary schools that offered intensive instruction in English.

As a series of increasingly bizarre events alter the perfect world of Soviet agent Anatoly Sukhanov, he begins to question the decisions he made more than twenty years ago that lead him away from his artistic lifestyle into a career that thrives on censorship.

British agent Charlie Muffin goes undercover as an arms trader in order to infiltrate the leading Russian mafia families and find out who has pulled off a major heist of weapons-grade nuclear material.

After selling her vast jewelry collection in an attempt to put her past to rest, Nina Revskaya, who was once a star of the ballet in Russia, is forced to confront dark secrets of her heart in order to help an auction house associate director and a Russian professor solve a literary mystery.

The story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. A rich white planter's attempt to steal their land forced them to flee to Memphis, where Frederick's father was brutally murdered. After leaving the South and working as a waiter and valet in Chicago and Brooklyn, Frederick sought greater freedom in London, then crisscrossed Europe, and-- in a highly unusual choice for a Black American at the time-- went to Russia in 1899. Because he found no color line there, Frederick made Moscow his home. He renamed himself Fyodor Fyodorovich Tomas, married twice, acquired a mistress, and took Russian citizenship. Through his hard work, charm, and guile he became one of the city's richest and most famous owners of variety theaters and restaurants. The Bolshevik Revolution ruined him, and he barely escaped with his life and family to Constantinople in 1919. Starting from scratch, he made a second fortune by opening celebrated nightclubs that introduced jazz to Turkey. However, the long arm of American racism, the xenophobia of the new Turkish Republic, and Frederick's own extravagance landed him in debtor's prison. He died in Constantinople in 1928.