The Little Russian

Author : Susan Sherman
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619020702

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The Little Russian by Susan Sherman Pdf

From an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The Little Russian tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow—a life filled with salons, balls and all the trappings of the upper class—very different from her current life as a grocer's daughter in the Jewish townlet of Mosny. So when a mysterious and cultured wheat merchant walks into the grocery, Berta's life is forever altered. She falls in love, unaware that he is a member of the Bund, The Jewish Worker's League, smuggling arms to the shtetls to defend them against the pogroms sweeping the Little Russian countryside. Married and established in the wheat center of Cherkast, Berta has recaptured the life she once had in Moscow. So when a smuggling operation goes awry and her husband must flee the country, Berta makes the vain and foolish choice to stay behind with her children and her finery. As Russia plunges into war, Berta eventually loses everything and must find a new way to sustain the lives and safety of her children. Filled with heart–stopping action, richly drawn characters, and a world seeped in war and violence; The Little Russian is poised to capture readers as one of the hand–selling gems of the season.

Author : Henry GrŽville
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465601926

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The Little Russian Servant by Henry GrŽville Pdf

Author : Liz Mazzarella
Publisher : MindStir Media
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0991319060

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The Little Russian Princess by Liz Mazzarella Pdf

An adoption tale taking you through a family's "journey of love" to bring their newly adopted daughter (Princess Anastasia) home from Russia to be with her "forever family" in the United States.

Author : Mrs. M. E. Bewsher
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465512192

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Catharine's Peril: The Little Russian Girl Lost in a Forest and Other Stories by Mrs. M. E. Bewsher Pdf

In the year 1812, Napoleon Buonaparte, after conquering nearly the whole of Europe, invaded Russia, and led his victorious army to Moscow, the ancient capital of that country. Soon this city, with its winding streets, its hills, its splendid churches, its fine houses and cottages so mixed together, its corn-fields, woods, and gardens, as well as the Kremlin, consisting of several churches, palaces, and halls collected on the top of a hill and surrounded by walls, fell into the power of the French. Rostopchin, the Governor, impelled by bigoted patriotism, resolved to set fire to the city confided to him by his imperial master Alexander, the Czar of all the Russias. It was truly a heart-rending sight to witness the misfortunes of the inhabitants, forced to quit their homes to escape a horrible death. The provisions stored in the granaries and other places were consumed in the flames. The conflagration lasted about ten days, until almost the whole of Moscow was laid in ashes. The main body of the Russian army had retired towards Tula, and taken up a strong position on the road leading towards that town, in order to prevent the French from advancing into the interior of the country. Thus they were hemming them in on all sides, only leaving them the choice of being starved or burned, or returning by the way they had come, and wintering in Poland. This latter expedient might have saved the army had it been adopted in time. The terrible Cossacks, first-rate riders, with lances ten feet long, and a musket slung over their right shoulder, were swarming around everywhere, and annoying the French outposts, cutting off the foraging parties, and hindering them in their attempt to penetrate into the south of Russia, where they would have found plenty of provisions for the winter.

Author : M. E. Mrs. Bewsher
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547533825

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Catharine's Peril, or The Little Russian Girl Lost in a Forest. And Other Stories by M. E. Mrs. Bewsher Pdf

"Catharine's Peril, or The Little Russian Girl Lost in a Forest. And Other Stories" by M. E. Mrs. Bewsher. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Susan Sherman
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619020290

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The Little Russian by Susan Sherman Pdf

From an exciting new voice in historical fiction, an assured debut that should appeal to readers of Away by Amy Bloom or Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. The Little Russian tells the story of Berta Alshonsky, who revels in childhood memories of her time spent with a wealthy family in Moscow—a life filled with salons, balls and all the trappings of the upper class—very different from her current life as a grocer's daughter in the Jewish townlet of Mosny. So when a mysterious and cultured wheat merchant walks into the grocery, Berta's life is forever altered. She falls in love, unaware that he is a member of the Bund, The Jewish Worker's League, smuggling arms to the shtetls to defend them against the pogroms sweeping the Little Russian countryside. Married and established in the wheat center of Cherkast, Berta has recaptured the life she once had in Moscow. So when a smuggling operation goes awry and her husband must flee the country, Berta makes the vain and foolish choice to stay behind with her children and her finery. As Russia plunges into war, Berta eventually loses everything and must find a new way to sustain the lives and safety of her children. Filled with heart–stopping action, richly drawn characters, and a world seeped in war and violence; The Little Russian is poised to capture readers as one of the hand–selling gems of the season.

Author : Mary Wade
Publisher : Litres
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9785040545872

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Our Little Russian Cousin by Mary Wade Pdf

Author : Marisa Livet
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781326560188

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Little Russian Stories (So true, that they look invented) by Marisa Livet Pdf

Author : Mary Hazelton Wade
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783732639182

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Our Little Russian Cousin by Mary Hazelton Wade Pdf

Reproduction of the original: Our Little Russian Cousin by Mary Hazelton Wade

Author : Saint Paisiĭ Velichkovskiĭ
Publisher : St Herman Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Christian saints
ISBN : 0938635336

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Little Russian Philokalia by Saint Paisiĭ Velichkovskiĭ Pdf

Author : Douglas R. Weiner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999-02-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520928113

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A Little Corner of Freedom by Douglas R. Weiner Pdf

While researching Russia's historical efforts to protect nature, Douglas Weiner unearthed unexpected findings: a trail of documents that raised fundamental questions about the Soviet political system. These surprising documents attested to the unlikely survival of a critical-minded, scientist-led movement through the Stalin years and beyond. It appeared that, within scientific societies, alternative visions of land use, resrouce exploitation, habitat protection, and development were sustained and even publicly advocated. In sharp contrast to known Soviet practices, these scientific societies prided themselves on their traditions of free elections, foreign contacts, and a pre-revolutionary heritage. Weiner portrays nature protection activists not as do-or-die resisters to the system, nor as inoffensive do-gooders. Rather, they took advantage of an unpoliced realm of speech and activity and of the patronage by middle-level Soviet officials to struggle for a softer path to development. In the process, they defended independent social and professional identities in the face of a system that sought to impose official models of behavior, ethics, and identity for all. Written in a lively style, this absorbing story tells for the first time how organized participation in nature protection provided an arena for affirming and perpetuating self-generated social identities in the USSR and preserving a counterculture whose legacy survives today.

Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Random House
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780091944247

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The Songs of St Petersburg by Amor Towles Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility. 'A comic masterpiece.' The Times 'Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman.' New York Times Book Review 'A work of great charm, intelligence and insight.' Sunday Times 'Everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight.' Mail on Sunday 'If we do a better book than this one on the book club this year we will be very very lucky.' Matt Williams, Radio 2 Book Club 'Abundant in humour, history and humanity' Sunday Telegraph 'Wistful, whimsical and wry.' Sunday Express On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. But instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval, the Count, stripped of the trappings that defined his life, is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance of a glamorous actress, a cantankerous chef and a very serious child, Rostov unexpectedly discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose.

Author : Faith Hillis
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801469251

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Children of Rus' by Faith Hillis Pdf

In Children of Rus’, Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The right bank, or west side, of the Dnieper River—which today is located at the heart of the independent state of Ukraine—was one of the Russian empire’s last territorial acquisitions, annexed only in the late eighteenth century. Yet over the course of the long nineteenth century, this newly acquired region nearly a thousand miles from Moscow and St. Petersburg generated a powerful Russian nationalist movement. Claiming to restore the ancient customs of the East Slavs, the southwest’s Russian nationalists sought to empower the ordinary Orthodox residents of the borderlands and to diminish the influence of their non-Orthodox minorities. Right-bank Ukraine would seem unlikely terrain to nourish a Russian nationalist imagination. It was among the empire’s most diverse corners, with few of its residents speaking Russian as their native language or identifying with the culture of the Great Russian interior. Nevertheless, as Hillis shows, by the late nineteenth century, Russian nationalists had established a strong foothold in the southwest’s culture and educated society; in the first decade of the twentieth, they secured a leading role in local mass politics. By 1910, with help from sympathetic officials in St. Petersburg, right-bank activists expanded their sights beyond the borderlands, hoping to spread their nationalizing agenda across the empire. Exploring why and how the empire’s southwestern borderlands produced its most organized and politically successful Russian nationalist movement, Hillis puts forth a bold new interpretation of state-society relations under tsarism as she reconstructs the role that a peripheral region played in attempting to define the essential characteristics of the Russian people and their state.

Author : Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf,Evgeniĭ Petrov
Publisher : New York : F. Ungar
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Russian fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002548944

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The Little Golden Calf by Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf,Evgeniĭ Petrov Pdf

The satirical novel's main character, Ostap Bender, also appeared in a previous novel by the authors called The Twelve Chairs. The title alludes to the "golden calf" of the Bible; another possible rendering of it in English, less literal but better tuned to the air of the novel, would be "The Gilded Calf". It continues the theme of the denunciation of money-grubbing, philistine stupidity, and bureaucracy, which began in “The Twelve Chairs”.

Author : Ekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskai︠a︡
Publisher : McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Breshko-Breshkovskaia, Ekaterina Konstantinovna Verigo, 1844-1934
ISBN : HARVARD:RSLYA9

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The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution by Ekaterina Konstantinovna Breshko-Breshkovskai︠a︡ Pdf