Russian Biographies

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    • The Court of the Red Tsar
    • Written by: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
    • Length: 27 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 2019-08-06
    • Language: English
    • 17 ratings
    • Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes–as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag–has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century...

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    • Romanovs, Revolutionaries, and the Forgotten Titan Who Fueled the World
    • Written by: Douglas Brunt
    • Narrated by: Douglas Brunt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2026-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • Instant New York Times Bestseller! Why did one of the world’s most successful business titans, an oil magnate who rivaled the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, disappear from history? The author of the acclaimed bestseller The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel has the enthralling answer. With...

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    • The Hunt for a Russian Mole
    • Written by: Wayne A. Barnes
    • Narrated by: James Maltby
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2026-04-17
    • Language: English
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    • In 1998, I was the undercover agent tasked to recruit a Russian who could unmask their spy in the FBI. Twenty-five years later, this story is still not known outside of the Bureau.

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    • Boris “Biba” Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America
    • Written by: Douglas Century
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Gregory Korostishevsky
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2022-07-05
    • Language: English
    • 2 ratings
    • Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba, one of the most notorious Russian mob bosses of our era. Boris Nayfeld, a.k.a. “Biba,” is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and he’s...

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    • Written by: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard
    • Series: The Romanovs
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2011-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 ratings
    • A “masterful” (The Washington Post Book World) account of the quest to solve one of the great mysteries in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Catherine the Great “Riveting . . . unfolds like a detective story.”—Los...

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    • The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
    • Written by: Rosemary Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2015-06-02
    • Language: English
    • 12 ratings
    • Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography PEN Literary Award Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist New York Times Notable Book Washington Post Notable Book Boston Globe Best Book of the Year The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched...

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    • Written by: John Steinbeck
    • Narrated by: Richard Poe
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2014-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 ratings
    • Steinbeck and Capa’s account of their journey through Cold War Russia is a classic piece of reportage and travel writing. Just after the Iron Curtain fell on Eastern Europe, Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck and acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union...

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    • Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War
    • Written by: Helen Rappaport
    • Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 2022-03-08
    • Language: English
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    • From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and...

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    • Written by: Victor Frankl
    • Narrated by: Alexey Muzhitsky
    • Length: 56 mins
    • Release date: 2025-07-28
    • Language: Russian
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    • Жизнь в немецком концлагере оставляет самые жуткие и болезненные переживания. Те немногие, кто смог освободиться из лагеря, предпочтут никогда не вспоминать о пережитом ужасе за его стенами. Виктор Эмиль Франкл – один из тех, кто сумел прожить больше двух лет в немецких концлагерях.

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    • How British Spies Thwarted Lenin's Plot for Global Revolution
    • Written by: Giles Milton
    • Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 2014-04-29
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating
    • In 1917, a band of communist revolutionaries stormed the Winter Palace of Tsar Nicholas II - a dramatic and explosive act marking that Vladimir Lenin’s communist revolution was now underway....

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    • The Truth Behind the Secret Plans to Rescue the Russian Imperial Family
    • Written by: Helen Rappaport
    • Narrated by: Damian Lynch
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 2018-06-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 ratings
    • On the 100th Anniversary of the murder of the Russian Imperial Family, acclaimed historian Helen Rappaport embarks on a quest to uncover the many international plots to save them, why they failed, and who was responsible. The murder of the Romanov family in July 1918 horrified the world and its...

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    • A Memoir of Food and Longing
    • Written by: Anya von Bremzen
    • Narrated by: Kathleen Gati
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2013-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 ratings
    • A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families...

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    • And Other Stories from My Search for Black Markets, Soviet Architecture, and Emotionally Unavailable Russian Men
    • Written by: Audrey Murray
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-24
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating
    • The raucous and surprisingly poignant story of a young, Russia-obsessed American writer and comedian who embarked on a solo tour of the former Soviet Republics, never imagining that it would involve kidnappers, garbage bags of money, and encounters with the weird and wonderful from Mongolia to...

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    • The explosive account of how Putin poisoned Alexei Navalny
    • Written by: John Sweeney
    • Narrated by: John Sweeney
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2024-08-01
    • Language: English
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    • 'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, Telegraph The gripping sequel to the bestselling Killer in the Kremlin, revised and updated for paperback...

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    • Written by: Ольга Соломатина
    • Narrated by: Юрий Красиков
    • Length: 16 mins
    • Release date: 2026-05-06
    • Language: Russian
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    • Илон Маск—предприниматель, инженер и изобретатель, а кроме того, великий мечтатель и человек, который не просто рвется к богатству, а ищет ответы на главные вопросы человечества. Например, руководит программой колонизации Марса.

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