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"It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and...
2) Zoya
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Against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution and World War I Europe, Zoya, young cousin to the Tsar, flees St. Petersburg to Paris to find safety. Her entire world forever changed, she faces hard times and joins the Ballet Russe in Paris. And then, when life is kind to her, Zoya moves on to a new and glittering life in New York. The days of ease are all too brief as the Depression strikes, and she loses everything yet again. It is her career, and...
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"An enchanting, suspenseful novel of love, art, music, and family secrets set among the Russian émigré community of Paris in 1937. Evie, a rebellious young American, leaves New York in search of art and adventure in Jazz Age Paris, home to her long-estranged bohemian grandmother. But just as Evie arrives, her grandmother becomes very ill. Before she dies, she compels Evie to carry out her final wish: find a man from her past known only as Zhenya....
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Wspaniala powiesc dla wielbicielek wielkich romans̤w. Jesli podobal Ci sie Jezdziec miedziany, pokochasz Biala wilczyce! Jest rok 1917. Ksenia, pietnastoletnia Rosjanka, traci rodzic̤w i ucieka z bolszewickiego Piotrogrodu do Paryza. Spotkanie z Maxem, czarujacym, niemieckim fotografem odmieni zycie obojga na zawsze. Ta wielowatkowa historia milosna rozgrywa sie na tle zdarzen I polowy XX wieku. Czytelnik znajdzie tu groze rosyjskiej rewolucji i...
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"Gordon Pinner es un joven periodista destinado en París en 1930. Aunque consciente de las injusticias cometidas por los bolcheviques tras la caída del imperio de los zares, Pinner es también un idealista que alberga una honda simpatía por la Revolución y que no dudará en infiltrarse en la comunidad de rusos exiliados en la capital francesa cuando sus camaradas del servicio secreto soviético se lo pidan. De la mano de una hermosa y enigmática...
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"Élisabeth Gille was only five when the Gestapo arrested her mother, and she grew up remembering next to nothing of her. Her mother was a figure, a name, Irène Némirovsky , a once popular novelist, a Russian émigré from an immensely rich family, a Jew who didn't consider herself one and who even contributed to collaborationist periodicals, and a woman who died in Auschwitz because she was a Jew. To her daughter she was a tragic enigma and a stranger....
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