nicholas ii, 1894-1917

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.

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.

In the days before the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Feodora sets out to rescue her mother when the Tsar's Imperial Army imprisons her for teaching tamed wolves to fend for themselves.

When they are transported to St. Petersburg, Russia, twins Maisie and Felix meet Anastasia Romanov and experience a world filled with palaces and privilege.

In the days before the Russian Revolution, twelve-year-old Feodora sets out to rescue her mother when the Tsar's Imperial Army imprisons her for teaching tamed wolves to fend for themselves.

Rachel has escaped the anti-semitic violence of her home town in Russia, and has finally arrived in California to start a new life despite the challenges of poverty and the great California earthquake.

In 1903, Rachel, a Jew who left Russia with her family on the Trans-Siberian Railway to the coast to board a ship for Shanghai, China, and her friend Sergei, who left home for a factory job in St. Petersburg and joined rebelling workers, write letters to one another, describing the challenges they face and hope for their futures.

A novel based on the life of Vladimir Nabokov's gay brother Sergey, from his wealth and position in pre-revolutionay Russia, Cambridge University, and to the Parisian salon of Gertrude Stein, Sergey lives the life of an opium addict with a troubling love life in the shadow of his brilliant brother when he takes to to living in Berlin, he is eventully arrested and sent to a camp in 1945.