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Tsarist Russia: 1700–1917
Russia · 1700–1917 · exact time + place
The age of imperial grandeur, social unrest, and revolution that shaped the modern Russian state and inspired epic tales — Tolstoy ballrooms, Dostoevsky garrets, and the long road to 1917. The button below opens StoryTerra with both Russia and 1700–1917 already set.
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Anna Karenina
In Imperial Russia Anna the wife of the officer Karenin goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way she meets the charming cavalry officer Vronsky to whom she is immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high…
Love and Death
In czarist Russia a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
The Great
A genre-bending, anti-historical ride through 18th century Russia following the rise of Catherine the Nothing to Catherine the Great and her explosive relationship with husband Peter, the emperor of Russia.
Silver Skates
1899 the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet come together. They are people…
Anna Karenina
Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the…
Горе от ума
"Горе от ума" - одна из первых русских комедий, разодранных на пословицы и поговорки, которыми до сих пор украшена речь всякого мало-мальски начитанного человека."Горе от ума" - комедия, давшая русской литературе…
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the “wicked and sentimental” Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three…
The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
Four works by great 19th-century Russian author - "The Nose," a savage satire of Russia's incompetent bureaucrats; "Old-Fashioned Farmers," a pleasant depiction of an elderly couple living in rustic seclusion; "The Tale…
Fall of Giants
This is an epic of love, hatred, war and revolution. This is a huge novel that follows five families through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for votes for women.…
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
A nineteenth-century boy from a Mississippi River town recounts his adventures as he travels down the river with a runaway slave, encountering a family involved in a feud, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and…
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