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Tatiana and Dasha Metanov are two sisters sharing a cramped apartment with their brother and parents in Stalin's Russia when Tatiana meets and falls in love with Alexander, "an officer in the Red Army whose self-confidence sets him apart from most Russian men and helps to conceal a mysterious and troubled past."--Jacket.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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"On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl--has exploded. Before they know it, the two girls, who've always been enemies, find themselves on a train bound for Leningrad to stay with Valentina's estranged grandmother, Rita Grigorievna. In their new lives in Leningrad, they begin to learn what it means to trust another person....
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"A family secret revealed 40 years ago by a grandmother to her grandson is now an acclaimed Russian historical fiction novel. "A Hundred Sweet Promises" is the tale of the author's grandfather, Nasrosoltan, a famed composer, who on the eve of World War I travels from Persia to Russia to study classical music at the St. Petersburg Conservatory with such masters as Rimsky-Korsakov. While there, Nasrosoltan falls in love with a Romanov princess, but...
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The two years before he wrote Crime and Punishment (1866) had been bad ones for Dostoyevsky. His wife and brother had died; the magazine he and his brother had started, Epoch, collapsed under its load of debt; and he was threatened with debtor's prison. With an advance that he managed to wangle for an unwritten novel, he fled to Wiesbaden, hoping to win enough at the roulette table to get himself out of debt. Instead, he lost all his money; he had...
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Center Point Large Print
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2018.
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Ingrid Winter is desperately trying to hold it all together. A neurotic Norwegian mother of three small children and an overworked literature professor with an overactive imagination, Ingrid feels like her life's always on the brink of chaos. Clearly she needs to get away. But Russia? Forced to join an academic mission to Saint Petersburg to promote international cooperation, Ingrid finds herself at a crossroads while drinking too much cough syrup....
7) Ballerina
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First Run Features
Pub. Date
2006
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English
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French filmmaker Bertrand Norman follows the careers of five Russian ballerinas in this documentary that was originally produced for French TV. Using some magnificent footage of performances, as well as behind the scenes shots and candid interviews, Bertrand gives audiences a glimpse of the extreme discipline and dedication demanded of ballerinas who dance at the famed Kirov Ballet.
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Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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A modern take on one of the most famous stories of all time. In 1805 when we first meet Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, they are all part of St. Petersburg's glittering elite, but are fired up with youthful ambition to find meaning in their lives. As everything they thought they knew is questioned, Pierre, Andrei and Natasha find themselves in a time when Russian society is about to change forever.
11) The iris effect
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MTI Home Video
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[2006]
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English
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A woman's gifted and troubled son disappears from their home in Los Angeles. Many years pass, a new clue turns up and she is convinced her son is living in Russia. The closer she comes to the truth, the harder it is to believe...
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