Russian Historical Fiction Literature

Autumn, 1989. The waning days of the Cold War. A rogue Stasi colonel has acquired a nuclear bomb and threatens to level Berlin if and when the Wall comes down. CIA Agent Nick Harper is called in to foil the plot. Soon after arriving, however, Harper discovers his identity has been compromised. To stay alive, he must go along with a group of passionate young East Berliners who mistake him for their idol, American superstar David Hasselhoff.

Ein Sieg der Menschlichkeit in aussichtsloser Lage. Kasan 1923: Im Wolgagebiet herrscht große Hungersnot. Dejew, ein ehemaliger Soldat auf der Seite der Roten, soll fünfhundert elternlose Kinder mit einem Zug nach Samarkand schaffen, um sie vor dem sicheren Hungertod zu retten. Aber es fehlt an allem für den Transport: Proviant, Kleidung, Heizmaterial für die Lokomotive, Medikamente. Ein Roadmovie durch ein total zerrüttetes Land beginnt, in dem in weiten Teilen immer noch der Bürgerkrieg wütet.

Адаптация это вопрос выживания. Франк Мейер оказывается искусным дипломатом, завоевывает симпатии немецких офицеров. В течение четырех лет люди из гестапо будут пить за Коко Шанель, ужасную вдову Ритц или Саша Гитри.

Конец XIX века, время непростое. Сознание Андрея Степанова не вселяется ни в императора, ни в цесаревича, ни в великого князя, ни даже в захудалого графа. А вселяется оно в обычного молодого человека, который даже не дворянин, а неудавшийся юрист, да еще купеческого рода. «Вселенец» не спецназовец, не снайпер, не владеет единоборствами, песен про поручиков и кавалергардов «сочинять» не хочет. Дед его — купец первой гильдии, но отказал всем от дома, и к нему еще предстоит найти подход.

In this immersive novel, Zuravleff weaves Russian fairy tales and fables into a family saga within the storied American landscape. The challenges facing immigrants-and the fragility of citizenship-are just as unsettling and surprising today as they were 100 years ago.

Zhivoe i yarkoe opisanie sobytiy pervoy treti trinadcatogo veka, kotorye razvorachivayutsya na prostorah aziatskih stepey i v glushi russkih lesov, ih istoricheskaya dostovernost' nevol'no zahvatyvayut chitatelya.

Roman posvyashchen odnomu iz slozhneyshih i trudneyshih periodov istorii Drevney Rusi. V samom nachale XIV veka opredelilos' protivostoyanie mezhdu Tver'yu i Moskvoy v bor'be za yarlyk na velikiy stol Vladimirskogo knyazheniya i tem samym za liderstvo v sobiranii russkih zemel'. Velikodushnyy, po slovam Karamzina, knyaz' Mihail tverskoy i samolyubivyy knyaz' moskovskiy YUriy yavlyayutsya central'nymi figurami ehtoy tragicheskoy povesti.

Roman Val'tera Skotta "Puritane" (1815) yarko i uvlekatel'no povestvuet o znamenitom shotlandskom vosstanii 1679 g. za nacional'nuyu nezavisimost' i religioznuyu svobodu. Na fone burnyh istoricheskih sobytiy izobrazhena dramaticheskaya istoriya molodyh lyudey, polyubivshih drug druga, no okazavshihsya v raznyh lageryah. Na ih puti - beschislennye opasnosti, nepreodolimye prepyatstviya, nelepye sluchaynosti, no glubokoe chuvstvo, vernost' svoim vzglyadam i obshchestvennomu dolgu.

Остенде – блистательный морской курорт, на котором в 1936 году собрались писатели, журналисты, издатели, поэты – Стефан Цвейг и Йозеф Рот, Артур Кестлер и Эрнст Толлер - все те, кому нет места в национал-социалистической Германии. Поэты в бегах, писатели в изгнании. Фолькер Вайдерманн точно и проникновенно рассказывает историю того удивительного лета незадолго до Второй мировой войны, когда цвет немецкой творческой интеллигенции празднует жизнь (у большинства из них она скоро оборвется), как это могут делать только полностью отчаявшиеся люди.

It's 1803, and an adolescent Nadya is determined not to follow in her overbearing Ukrainian mother's footsteps. She's a horsewoman, not a housewife. When Tsar Paul is assassinated in St. Petersburg and a reluctant and naive Alexander is crowned emperor, Nadya runs away from home and joins the Russian cavalry in the war against Napoleon. Disguised as a boy and riding her spirited stallion, Alcides, Nadya rises in the ranks, even as her father begs the tsar to find his daughter and send her home.

"Na beregah Seny" (1978), vtoraya chast' memuarov izvestnoy pisatel'nicy Iriny Odoevcevoy, posvyashchena zhizni russkih literatorov v ehmigracii. Tak zhe, kak i v pervoy knige "Na beregah Nevy" (1967), Odoevceva rasskazyvaet, prezhde vsego ne o sebe, a o tekh lyudyah, s kotorymi stolknula ee sud'ba. Personazhi ehtoy knigi - K. Bal'mont, G. Ivanov, G. Adamovich, I. Severyanin, M. Cvetaeva, I. Bunin. Po suti, ves' okazavshiysya v izgnanii russkiy Serebryanyy vek.

Москва. Конец 1970-х годов. По данным контрразведки СССР сотрудники ЦРУ завербовали одного из ведущих специалистов, обладающего секретной информацией о советских поставках в дружественную нам южноафриканскую страну Нагонию.

Andrey enters his final year of medical studies in 1854 with an empty belly, empty pockets, and secondhand clothes hanging together by wishful thinking. When Russia blunders into the misbegotten Crimean War, Tsar Nicholas recruits medical students to the front, and Andrey grabs at this flash of good luck. But his sanity is soon tested as he is forced to witness the most senseless and utter disregard for human life imaginable - where the death of a man holds no more significance than the death of a beetle.

Zahvatyvayushchiy istoricheskiy roman "Slony Gannibala" sozdan izvestnym otechestvennym istorikom Aleksandrom Iosifovichem Nemirovskim. Kniga posvyashchena dramaticheskomu ehpizodu Punicheskih voyn mezhdu Rimom i Karfagenom - pohodu karfagenskogo polkovodca Gannibala na Italiyu. Ottochennyy literaturnyy stil', napryazhennyy syuzhet, osnovannyy na doskonal'nom znanii istoricheskih istochnikov, psihologizm povestvovaniya.

Sbornik rasskazov "Gladiatory" izvestnogo pisatelya i uchenogo-istorika Aleksandra Nemirovskogo, pogruzhayut slushatelya v mir antichnoy drevnosti, gde deystvuyut sil'nye i muzhestvennye lyudi, sposobnye protivostoyat' dramaticheskim obstoyatel'stvam, siloy haraktera preodolet' neblagopriyatnuyu sud'bu. Istoricheskaya tochnost' udachno sochetaetsya s avtorskoy fantaziey, a blestyashchiy lakonichnyy stil' delaet ehti rasskazy legkimi dlya vospriyatiya so sluha.

Roman izvestnogo pisatelya i uchenogo-istorika A.I. Nemirovskogo "Karfagen dolzhen byt' razrushen", prodolzhayushchiy syuzhetnuyu liniyu romana "Slony Gannibala", risuet velichestvennuyu i tragicheskuyu kartinu gibeli drevnego Karfagena, na oblomkah kotorogo voznikla Rimskaya Imperiya. Zahvatyvayushche interesnoe i zhivoe povestvovanie pogruzhaet nas v samuyu gushchu sobytiy toy dalekoy ehpohi i zastavlyaet perezhivat' proshloe kak nastoyashchee.

It begins as Henya, wife of Rabbi Mendel Kolopsky, considers an unexpected pregnancy and the hardships ahead for the children she already has. Soon after the child is born, Cossacks ransack the Kolopskys' home, severely beating Mendel. In the aftermath, he tells Henya that, contrary to his brother belief that socialism is their ticket to escaping the region's brutal anti-Semitic pogroms, he still believes America holds the answer. Henya, meanwhile, understands that any future will be perilous: she now knows their baby daughter, who has slept through this night of melee, is surely deaf.

Molodaya anglichanka Linda Martin priezzhaet vo Franciyu, chtoby stat' guvernantkoj devyatiletnego Filippa, grafa de Val'mi. Ee podopechnyj - vladelec rodovogo zamka i imeniya, kotorymi upravlyaet ego dyadya Leon. Linda chuvstvuet v otnosheniyah obitatelej zamka neponyatnuyu napryazhennost' i pytaetsya zashchitit' mal'chika ot davyashchej vlastnosti dyadi i holodnogo ravnodushiya tetki. Vnezapno vspyhnuvshaya lyubov' k synu Leona, Raulyu, eshche bolee oslozhnyaet ee zhizn'. Vo vremya progulki v Filippa strelyayut.

Vpervye na russkom - mezhdunarodnyj bestseller ital'yanskoj pisatel'nicy Rozelly Postorino, laureata samyh prestizhnyh literaturnyh nagrad Italii, takih kak Strega, Campiello i Un autore l'Europa - v tom chisle za dannuyu knigu. Roman etot osnovyvaetsya na real'noj istorii - na interv'yu, kotoroe dala v 2012 godu 95-letnyaya Margo Vyol'k, edinstvennaya perezhivshaya vojnu iz pyatnadcati devushek, kotorye v gitlerovskoj stavke "Vol'fsshance" ("Volch'e logovo") probovali edu, prednaznachennuyu dlya fyurera: tot patologicheski boyalsya, chto ego mogut otravit'.

Arguably Turgenev's greatest work and certainly one of the most controversial Russian novels ever written, Fathers and Sons incited protests from all branches of Russian society. Turgenev dramatized the volcanic issues that divided a Russia torn by social unrest and conflict: peasants against masters, generations against generations, and fathers against sons.