Russian Historical Biographies

Catherine the Great: A Short History

By isabel-de-madariaga

A Spy Named Orphan: The Enigma of Donald Maclean

By Roland Philipps

Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

By John T. Alexander (Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas, Professor of History and Soviet and East European Studies at the University of Kansas)

Catherine the Great

By Henri Troyat, Emily Read

Pam Ayres - The Works: The Classic Collection

By Pam Ayres

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire: Political Leaders From Lenin to Gorbachev

By Volkogonov, Dmitri, Dmitri Volkogonov

Pushkin: The Man and His Age

By Robin Edmonds

Nothing For Tears

By Lali Horstmann

The Spirit-Wrestlers

By Philip Marsden

Never Alone: Prison, Politics, and My People

By Gil Troy, Natan Sharansky

Just Send Me Word: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Gulag

By Orlando Figes

One Soldier's War in Chechnya

By Arkady Babchenko

The Cyclist Who Went Out in the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain Trail

By Moore, Tim

Nicholas II: The Last of the Tsars

By Marc Ferro

Marshal Zhukov

By Axell, Albert

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon

By Neil Sheehan

The World of Andrei Sakharov: A Russian Physicist's Path to Freedom

By Gennady Gorelik (Research Fellow, Center for Philosophy and History of Science, Research Fellow, Boston University), Antonina W. Bouis (Vice President, Vice President, Andrei Sakharov Foundation)

Nothing is True and Everything is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia

By Peter Pomerantsev

Letters from Russia, 1919

By P. D. Ouspensky

Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798

By Stella Tillyard

My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes

By Imlach, Gary

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Helen Rappaport

The First Heroes

By Craig Nelson

The Romanov Conspiracies: The Romanovs and the House of Windsor

By Michael Occleshaw

Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar

By Simon Sebag Montefiore

Nicholas II, The Last Tsar

By Michael Paterson

Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend

By Mark Bostridge

The Life of Irene Nemirovsky: 1903-1942

By Olivier Philipponnat, Patrick Lienhardt, Euan Cameron

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

By Masha Gessen

1812: Napoleon’s Fatal March on Moscow

By Zamoyski, Adam