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A collectively-authored account of Russian history from its recorded origins through the late twentieth century, drawing from archives made available since 1991 to trace the process of economic, state, and social development, and examining the multinational composition of the empire.

Traces the history of imperial Russia from Peter the Great to the Bolshevik Revolution, examining court and peasant life, the Orthodox church, and the effects of industrialization.

Examines life in the country estates, cities, palaces, peasant cottages, and manor houses of Romanov Russia, and features an overview and timeline of the years between 1696 and 1917.

Sophie, a playful teenager, sent to the Russian court with one destiny, to marry the Empress's nephew, but she has bigger plans and she calls on Varvara to be her trusted servant and spy as Sophie rises to become Catherine the Great.

A study of the marriage of the last Russian tsar and tsarina offers psychological insights into their relationship and covers the Empress's ill health, their relationship with confidante Ania Vyrubova, and their reliance on the infamous Rasputin.

An English translation of Leo Tolstoy's classic epic novel about the lives of five aristocratic families in Moscow and St. Petersburg against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars of 1805 to 1814.

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.

Biography of Tsar Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra, the last of the Romanovs to rule Russia, describing their life together and the fall of Imperial Russia which cost them their lives.

Raskolnikov, an impoverished Russian student, murders a despicable old pawnbroker, reasoning that his evil act is outweighed by humanitarian good, but he discovers the fault in his theory when he is plagued by horror and guilt over his actions. Includes a selection of study aids.

A translation of nineteenth-century Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel in which the four sons of Fyodor Karamazov, a man of immoral character, must contend with a criminal investigation and with their own inner questions about justice and the existence of God after they are involved in their father's murder.