Russka
Author: Rutherfurd, Edward
ISBN: 9780099635208
Publisher: ARROW LTD - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 1998
Pages: 1024
Dimensions: 176mm x 123mm x 47mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Panoramic, sweeping, monumental, haunting- a story of four families which spans the centuries of Russia.
In this vast and gorgeous tapestry of a novel, serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew are brought together in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal that most impenetrable and mysterious of lands - Russia. Through the life of a little town east of Moscow in the Russian heartland, Edward Rutherfurd creates a sweeping family saga from the baffling contradictions of Russia's culture and her peoples - bleak yet exotic, brutal but romantic, land of ritual yet riddled with superstitious fears. From Russia's dawn and the cruel Tatar invasions to Ivan the Terrible and the wild Cossacks, from Peter, Catherine and the days of War and Peace to the drama of the Revolution and the extraordinary events of today - here is Russia's story in a spellbinding novel - history recreated with breathtaking detail and passion.
ISBN: 9780099635208
Publisher: ARROW LTD - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 1998
Pages: 1024
Dimensions: 176mm x 123mm x 47mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
Panoramic, sweeping, monumental, haunting- a story of four families which spans the centuries of Russia.
In this vast and gorgeous tapestry of a novel, serf and master, Cossack and tsar, priest and Jew are brought together in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal that most impenetrable and mysterious of lands - Russia. Through the life of a little town east of Moscow in the Russian heartland, Edward Rutherfurd creates a sweeping family saga from the baffling contradictions of Russia's culture and her peoples - bleak yet exotic, brutal but romantic, land of ritual yet riddled with superstitious fears. From Russia's dawn and the cruel Tatar invasions to Ivan the Terrible and the wild Cossacks, from Peter, Catherine and the days of War and Peace to the drama of the Revolution and the extraordinary events of today - here is Russia's story in a spellbinding novel - history recreated with breathtaking detail and passion.
