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A biography of the German princess who became the absolute ruler of the Russian empire and won for herself the reputation of a great enlightened monarch.

Chronicles the life of Marc Chagall from a rural artist influenced by Jewish mysticism and Russian folklore to becoming an influential and popular artist around the world. Also includes reproductions of some of his works.

Presents a novelized version of the animated film "Anastasia," about a young orphan named Anya who just might be a lost Romanov princess.

Traces the history of revolutionary Russia through primary source documents, revealing the events that occurred between 1917 and the 1930s, and including news articles, government documents, memoirs, diaries, photographs, and facsimiles.

Chronicles the life of eighteenth-century Russian empress Catherine the Great, covering such aspects as her difficult early years of marriage, her fierce ambition, and the political intrigue that shaped her reign.

Describes the resultant physical and mental depletion after a student in St. Petersburg murders an old woman, a money lender, and her sister.

Jewish handyman Yakov Bok, is arrested, imprisoned, and accused for a murder he did not commit.

American graduate student Ivan Smetski, haunted by the vision of a sleeping princess he believes he saw as a ten-year-old boy while exploring the Carpathian forest, returns to his native land to investigate and, with one kiss, is drawn into a world that vanished a thousand years earlier.

Profusely illustrated text discusses the campaigns and battles between German and Russian forces in 1942, when the Russians successfully defended Stalingrad and won their first offensive campaign of World War II.

Chronicles the adult life of Dmitrii Mendeleev, the creator of the periodic table, examining his efforts to make Russia a great scientific center and gain fame himself, and the resistance he met from the Russian Academy of Sciences.