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  • The Life-story of a Russian Exile

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by Marie Sukloff ...
    Marie Sukloff's memoir begins in the mud-plastered huts and hungry fields of Borovoi-Mlin, where peasant life is ruled by scarcity, taxes, bad harvests, and the constant struggle to survive. From the seizure of livestock and firewood to the humiliation of debt collectors taking cherished household objects, her childhood reveals a world in which poverty is inherited, labor begins early, and even ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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    The Life-story Of A Russian Exile (Unabridged)

    by MARIE SUKLOFF ...
    Narrated by Lloyd Taylor ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 20 min

    Hero or assassin? Victim or criminal? Marie Sukloff fits no easy category. A young peasant woman who became a political radical and activist, Sukloff carried out an assassination plot against a Russian governor known for murderous pogroms and rampages against the Jews of his province. This mesmerizing autobiographical account tells the story of Sukloff's peasant childhood, radicalization, direct ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Japanese Empire, Japanese Girls and Women, A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age From Tiberius to Hadrian, The Life-Story of A Russian Exile and Abused Russia

    For five days we had been rolling across the United States in a Pullman car, on our way to the opposite side of the globe. We might have set out from New York across the Atlantic, changing steamships in some European port and going the whole distance by water. But we had decided to see our own country first, and after our long journey across the continent, here we were at last rumbling into the ... Read more

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  • Rescuing the Czar

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  • Women Heroes of World War I

    16 Remarkable Resisters, Soldiers, Spies, and Medics

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    A commemoration of brave yet largely forgotten women who served in the First World WarIn time for the 2014 centennial of the start of the Great War, this book brings to life the brave and often surprising exploits of 16 fascinating women from around the world who served their countries at a time when most of them didn't even have the right to vote. Readers meet 17-year-old Frenchwoman Emilienne ... Read more

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  • The Lady with the Dog

    by Anton Chekhov ...
    The Lady with the Dog is a novella by Anton Chekhov first published in 1899. Written while in Yalta, it is considered one of his most famous stories, (also called Lady with Lapdog).The novella depicts what at first seems a casual liaison between a married man and a married woman in Yalta. Neither expects anything lasting from the encounter, but they find themselves drawn back to each other, ... Read more

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  • Rasputin the Rascal Monk

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  • Thirteen Years at the Russian Court - A Personal Record of the Last Years and Death of the Czar Nicholas II. and his Family

    First published in 1921, this book contains the memoirs of Pierre Gilliard. Pierre Gilliard (1879 – 1962) was a Swiss author and academic famous for being the French language tutor of Russian Emperor Nicholas II's children between 1905 and 1918. Within these pages, Gilliard describes Tsarina Alexandra's sadness relating to her son's haemophilia and her belief in Grigori Rasputin's ability to help ... Read more

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  • Rasputin

    The Saint Who Sinned

    Grigory Efimovich Rasputin came to St. Petersburg from his Siberian cabin in 1903 like a projectile from the medieval past, tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time he was murdered thirteen years later, the peasant was the "beloved" Friend of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra and the sponsor of the most powerful officials in Russia. He had become, a society lady wrote, "a dusk enveloping all ... Read more

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  • The Young Tsar

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    The young Tsar had just ascended the throne. For five weeks he had worked without ceasing, in the way that Tsars are accustomed to work. He had been attending to reports, signing papers, receiving ambassadors and high officials who came to be presented to him, and reviewing troops. He was tired, and as a traveller exhausted by heat and thirst longs for a draught of water and for rest, so he longed ... Read more

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  • Adventures of a British Master Spy

    The Memoirs of Sidney Reilly

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    A real-life James Bond, alleged to have spied for at least four nations and executed on the direct orders of Stalin himself, Sidney Reilly left a trail of false identities that made him precisely the type of person the secret intelligence service needed as an agent. Hero, conman, master spy, womaniser - who really was the 'Ace of Spies'? In September 1925, Sidney Reilly journeyed across the ... Read more

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