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FROM: sfer <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 12/4/04, 9:43 AM

A patron came in today asking for novels especifically
set in tsarist Russia. I can find the classic Russian
novelists, but any ideas out there for contemporary
novels set in that period? I checked whichbook.net and
came up with the detective series by Boris Akunin, but
apart from that most of the others are set in
revolutionary or 2nd World War Russia.

Thanks in advance!

ps: by the way, thanks also to the people who
responded with "burned alive", by Souad. It was the
one we were looking for ;)

Silvia Fernandez
Biblioteca Josep Soler Vidal
Gava - Barcelona - Spain

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FROM: Jan Skube <[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us>
REC'D: 12/4/04, 9:49 AM

Have you tried "The Kitchen Boy" by Robert Alexander?

At 09:34 AM 12/4/2004, you wrote:
>A patron came in today asking for novels especifically
>set in tsarist Russia. I can find the classic Russian
>novelists, but any ideas out there for contemporary
>novels set in that period? I checked whichbook.net and
>came up with the detective series by Boris Akunin, but
>apart from that most of the others are set in
>revolutionary or 2nd World War Russia.
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>ps: by the way, thanks also to the people who
>responded with "burned alive", by Souad. It was the
>one we were looking for ;)
>
>Silvia Fernandez
>Biblioteca Josep Soler Vidal
>Gava - Barcelona - Spain
>
>=====
>"Y el Aire estaba plagado de pensamientos y Cosas que Decir. Pero en
>momentos como ésos sólo se dicen Pequeñas Cosas. Las Grandes Cosas
>permanecen dentro, sin decirse." (Arundhati Roy)
>
>
>
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FROM: Andrew Smith <[removed]@mail.wrl.org>
REC'D: 12/4/04, 10:01 AM

Tom Bradby's The White Russian is set in the days *just* before the
Revolution, when the tsarist institutions were still in power.

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On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, sfer wrote:

> A patron came in today asking for novels especifically
> set in tsarist Russia. I can find the classic Russian
> novelists, but any ideas out there for contemporary
> novels set in that period? I checked whichbook.net and
> came up with the detective series by Boris Akunin, but
> apart from that most of the others are set in
> revolutionary or 2nd World War Russia.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> ps: by the way, thanks also to the people who
> responded with "burned alive", by Souad. It was the
> one we were looking for ;)
>
> Silvia Fernandez
> Biblioteca Josep Soler Vidal
> Gava - Barcelona - Spain
>
> =====
> "Y el Aire estaba plagado de pensamientos y Cosas que Decir. Pero en momentos como ésos sólo se dicen Pequeñas Cosas. Las Grandes Cosas permanecen dentro, sin decirse." (Arundhati Roy)
>
>
>
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FROM: Lisa <[removed]@optonline.net>
REC'D: 12/4/04, 7:55 PM

I second The Kitchen Boy by Robert Alexander. Also, here is a list of
other tsarist era Russian fiction not by the typical classical authors:

Russka- Edward Rutherfurd

Ringed Castle- Dorothy Dunnett

Czar!: A Novel of Ivan the Terrible- Larry Townsend

Under False Colours- Richard Woodman

The White Knight of St. Petersburg- Price Micheael of Greece, Frank
Philip(translator)

Bomb Vessel- Richard Woodman

Anna- Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Dancing Bear- Fred Saberhagen

Darker Jewels- Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Emily- Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Star of the North- Helene Lehr

The Snow Mountain- Catherine Irvine Gavin

The Summer Day is Gone- R.T. Stevens

Lisa Eickler

The Field Library

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From: Fiction_L

Date: 12/04/04 10:36:51

To: Fiction_L

Subject: Novels set in tsarist Russia

A patron came in today asking for novels especifically

set in tsarist Russia. I can find the classic Russian

novelists, but any ideas out there for contemporary

novels set in that period? I checked whichbook.net and

came up with the detective series by Boris Akunin, but

apart from that most of the others are set in

revolutionary or 2nd World War Russia.

Thanks in advance!

ps: by the way, thanks also to the people who

responded with "burned alive", by Souad. It was the

one we were looking for ;)

Silvia Fernandez

Biblioteca Josep Soler Vidal

Gava - Barcelona - Spain

=====

"Y el Aire estaba plagado de pensamientos y Cosas que Decir. Pero en
momentos como ésos sólo se dicen Pequeñas Cosas. Las Grandes Cosas
permanecen dentro, sin decirse." (Arundhati Roy)

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FROM: "Sarah Nagle" <[removed]@carverlib.org>
REC'D: 12/6/04, 4:38 PM

There is also FLEUR, the 2nd of Cynthia Harrod-Eagles's trilogy (first
is ANNA and third is EMILY, both mentioned in another post).

Also, Constance Heaven wrote HOUSE OF KURAGIN, ASTROV LEGACY, and HEIR
TO KURAGIN - another romance trilogy.

What is age of patron? The "novelizations" of E.M. Almedingen's
ancestors, KATIA, ELLEN, and FRANNY are good for middle school on up.

Sarah Nagle
Branch Manager and Reference Coordinator
Carver County Library - Chaska Branch
3 City Hall Plaza
Chaska, MN 55318
email [removed]@carverlib.org
Phone: 952-227-7615
Fax: 952-279-5216

FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 12/7/04, 3:59 PM

>From: Lisa <[removed]@optonline.net>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: Re: Novels set in tsarist Russia
>Date: Sat, 04 Dec 2004 20:33:26 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
>
>Anna- Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Also "Fleur" and "Emily." These three make up the Kirov Saga.

Sachem PL has a list that may be of use to you:
http://sachem.suffolk.lib.ny.us/advisor/russia.htm

FROM: "Marla" <[removed]@mtlib.org>
REC'D: 12/8/04, 8:20 AM

I don't think I've seen the series "The Russians" by Judith Pella mentioned. Starting
with Crown and the Crucible, it covers Russian history from the 1850s up to the
Russian Revolution.

BYE!

Marla/Acquisitions
Great Falls Public Library
301 2nd Ave N
Great Falls MT 59401-2593
[removed]@mtlib.org

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