A wealthy businessman in Madrid receives an unexpected email that completely changes his life. After several months of exiting internet interaction with an exceptionally beautiful Russian woman, he discovers that everything had been nothing more than a lie, set up for the purpose of defrauding him. Despite the disappointment, he decides not to sink into depression and begins an ambitious investigation in order to meet face-to- face with the woman, which soon starts up his desire to leave Spain and challenge himself traveling to a country totally unknown to him. A real story lived in the depth of Siberia in the middle of its hard winter. You are invited to enter this adventure feeling the sharp cold of love in a story that will surprise you, a story of unique characteristics, woven by protagonists of unique charisma. You are also invited to discover what a man in love is capable of doing for the purest love. That love that emerges only once in our existence.

The true story of Helene Rubinoff, a Russian refugee in Jazz Age New York who forsook her comfortable life with her impresario husband and his celebrity salons, and her beloved daughter, to follow her lover back to an uncertain fate in 1930s Russia.

The most prestigious salon in Jazz Age N.Y. was the one at the home of impresario Max Rabinoff and his beautiful wife, known as Bluet. It was here that the artistic refugees fleeing the horrors of the Russian Revolution would congregate. On one evening in 1928, a handsome Russian doctor named Marc Cheftel stepped into this salon for the first time. He said he had come to N.Y. to solicit medical relief aid for the Soviet people. Bluet and Marc soon became lovers, and she followed him back to the poverty, terrors, and brutality of Stalin's Russia. Soon she would be forced to choose between the life of her lover and the life of her daughter. Here is a compelling true story of two remarkable individuals caught up in the maelstrom of 20th-cent. history. Illus.

Chronicling the years from 1876 to 1939, "A Fatal Passion" tells the compelling story of Grand Duchess Victoria Melita, granddaughter of Queen Victoria and Emperor Alexander of Russia, and the tragic aftermath of the Russian Revolution. of photos.

When Barbara Davies went to Russia on a newspaper assignment, she met Lieutenant Valinsky and her world was turned upside down. Fascinated by the simplicity of his existence in a freezing winter, she embarked on an affair with him, determined to turn her back on her old life forever. But she had to confront the differences between their worlds.

This is a jubilant and rewarding collection of Winterson scholarship--a superb group of essays from a host of fine authors.

Based on rumors of a Soviet manned flight to the moon, this novel follows the adventures of Peter Nevsky, a cosmonaut-in-training with dreams of claiming the moon for Mother Russia