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Ballerinas Fiction Ballerines Romans, nouvelles, etc Danseurs de ballet Romans, nouvelles, etc Livres en gros caractères Man-woman relationships Fiction Russia (Federation) Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg (Russia) Fiction Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Fiction Upper class women Russia Fiction Young women FictionFitch, Janet
Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Summary: James Asher and his vampire partner Don Simon Ysidro travel to St. Petersburg in 1911 to investigate whether or not the kaiser is trying to build an army of vampires in preparation for war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMDostoyevsky, Fyodor
Summary: The story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1966
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOSPanaeva, A. I︠A︡. (Avdotʹi︠a︡ I︠A︡kovlevna)
Summary: "The Talnikov Family (1848) follows Natasha, a girl growing up in a psychologically and physically abusive household of Petersburg actors. Modeled on Panaeva's own life prior to her marriage to radical Ivan Panaev at 18, the piece was published in the important thick journal The Contemporary but was swiftly suppressed. Censors called it "cynical," "immoral," and "undermining of parental power."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Nineteenth-century Russian investigator Porfiry Petrovich doubts an initial conclusion that a St. Petersburg doctor is responsible for his wife's and son's poisoning deaths when the case is tied to another murder across town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORFitch, Janet
Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITKim, Juhea
Summary: "A once famous ballerina faces a final choice-to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever-in this incandescent novel of redemption and love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEFitch, Janet
Summary: Pregnant and adrift in the countryside amid the devastation of the Russian Civil War, Marina returns to a decimated Petrograd, where her work caring for war orphans inspires her emergence as a poet. -
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITKim, Juhea
Summary: "A once famous ballerina faces a final choice--to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever-in this incandescent novel of redemption and love."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2024