A children's story based on real events that shows how the death of one friend and the encouragement of another led to nineteenth-century composer Modest Mussorgsky's creation of the piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition." Includes piano and orchestral versions of the piece on audio CD.
In the Russian shtetl where she and her family live, Hannah is given a diary for her tenth birthday, and in it she records the dramatic story of her journey to America.
In 1913 in Russia, Indy befriends a young Georgian princess involved in the Georgian independence movement and is pursued by secret police and agents of an evil religious fanatic.
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 biography of Catherine the Great, discussing her eighteen-year effort to form alliances and gain power, which culminated with her seizing the throne from her husband, Peter III.
Living in Las Vegas with his unsuccessful father, Nick Rostov learns on his thirteenth birthday that he is descended from a powerful line of Russian Magickeepers on his dead mother's side, and that the equally powerful but evil Sahdowkeepers will stop at nothing to get an ancient relic that his grandfather gave him.
In 1897, fifteen-year-old Reuven Bloom, a Russian Jew, must set aside his dreams of playing the violin in order to save himself and his baby sister after the rest of their family is murdered.
In mid-nineteenth century Russia, Mendel Cholinsky, a twelve-year-old Jewish boy tries to escape to America to avoid being taken into the Czar's army for twenty-five years of military service.
Discusses the diverse ethnicity of Russian-Americans, their immigration, Jewish community, social, cultural and political customs, employment, experiences with discrimination, and integration into American society.
