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Publisher
Planeta/Editorial Planta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
638 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"Cuando Yuri Santacruz asistió al nombramiento como canciller de Adolf Hitler, no podía imaginar lo mucho que cambiaría su vida en Berlín. Había llegado allí unos meses atrás, después de haber huido, junto con parte de su familia, de San Petersburgo, asfixiados por una revolución que los había dejado sin nada. A Yuri también lo privó de su madre y su hermano pequeño, a quienes las autoridades rusas no permitieron la salida del país....
23) Eastern promises
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Russian-born Nikolai Luzhin is a driver for one of London's most notorious organized crime families of Eastern European origin. The family itself is part of the Vory V Zakone criminal brotherhood. Semyon heads the syndicate and is the proprietor of a plush Trans-Siberian restaurant. But his friendliness at the restaurant masks a cold and brutal core. Fortunes are tested by Semyon's volatile son and enforcer, Kirill. But Nikolai's carefully maintained...
24) Be prepared
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Description
Believing Russian summer camp will be the place she finally fits in, Vera jumps at the chance to sign up, but very quickly discovers that camp is nothing like she imagined.
Author
Series
Her Majesty the Queen investigates volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 24 cm
Description
It is the early spring of 2016 and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. But the preparations are interrupted when a guest is found dead in one of the Castle bedrooms. The scene suggests the young Russian pianist strangled himself, but a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect foul play was involved. The Queen leaves the investigation to the professionals-until their suspicions point them in the wrong direction....
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"In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer. Dima wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
"'Uncle Ike' (aka General Eisenhower) personally pins silver first lieutenant bars on Billy Boyle in Benn's stellar fifth WWII mystery (after 2009's Evil for Evil). In December 1943, Billy's leave with his British girlfriend in Italy is cut short. Orders send him to London to look into a Soviet officer's shooting murder, which may be retaliation for the execution of thousands of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest that's been blamed on the Germans...
Author
Publisher
Plume/Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 24 cm
Description
A writer visits his retired grandparents in Florida to document their experience during the infamous siege of Leningrad. His grandmother won't talk about it, but his grandfather reluctantly consents. The result is the captivating odyssey of two young men trying to survive against desperate odds.
29) Paradise
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Paradise tells the compelling story of three individuals, Olga, Jules and Helmut, whose paths cross amidst the devastation of war. Olga, a Russian aristocratic immigrant and member of the French Resistance, is arrested by Nazi police for hiding Jewish children during a surprise raid. As her punishment, she is sent to jail where she meets Jules, a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case. Jules grows fond of Olga and offers...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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Description
The daughter of a Coney Island boardwalk curiosities museum's front man pursues an impassioned love affair with a Russian immigrant photographer who after fleeing his Lower East Side Orthodox community has captured poignant images of the infamous Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire.
Author
Series
North Pacific studies volume no. 2
Publisher
Oregon Historical Society
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
viii, 158 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Circus saxophonist Vladimir Ivanoff suddenly defects from his touring troupe in that temple of "Western decadence," Bloomingdale's. He wins asylum and moves into the crowded Harlem flat of Black security guard Lionel Witherspoon. Although Vladimir learns that life in America can be cold and even painful, he grows to love what seems to him a strange and wondrous land.
Author
Publisher
Rayo
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
"El éxito, un veneno irresistible. Ambientada en el atractivo entorno del festival de Cannes, 'El vencedor está solo' va mucho más allá del lujo y el glamour, y nos aboca a una profunda reflexión acerca de la fuerza de los propios sueños y de cuál es la escala de valores con la que nos medimos. Durante 24 horas seguiremos los pasos de Igor, empresario ruso magnate de las comunicaciones, destrozado por una dolorosa ruptura sentimental, y conoceremos...
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"In 2006 Julia Lerner, a recent university graduate in computer science, is living in Moscow when she's recruited by Russia's largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she's in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America's most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion (check out her latest op-ed in the WSJ, on Work/Life...
35) Chelsea mansions
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"The annual Chelsea Flower Show is one of the tourist highlights of London. But this year, the event is tainted by the murder of an American tourist in a random act of violence. But when DCI David Brock's Serious Crime division of Scotland Yard investigates, they quickly discover that the killer somehow avoided having both his face and his escape captured on any of the many closed circuit cameras in the area. The conclusion is inescapable - what seemed...
Author
Publisher
Graphic Communication Institute
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
205 p. : ill., map, photos ; 26 cm.
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Description
"Russian princess Tatiana Volkonsky narrowly escaped death from marauding Bolsheviks after the Russian Revolution in 1917. Traumatized by the horrors of her flight, she was unable to share her painful memories before beginning a new life in San Luis Obispo, California. In 2005, twenty years after her death, documents were found that unlocked the mystery of Tatiana's unspeakable past. The author pieces together her friend's extraordinary journey and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 417 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"In this brilliant, myth-busting account, Braithwaite--the former British ambassador to Moscow--challenges much of what we know about the Soviets in Afghanistan. He provides an inside look at this little-understood episode, using first-hand accounts and piercing analysis to show the war as it was fought and experienced by the Russians. The invasion, he writes, was a defensive response to a chaotic situation in the Soviets' immediate neighbor. They...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 21
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"Viktor Orlov had a longstanding appointment with death. Once Russia?s richest man, he now resides in splendid exile in London, where he has waged a tireless crusade against the authoritarian kleptocrats who have seized control of the Kremlin. His mansion in Chelsea?s exclusive Cheyne Walk is one of the most heavily protected private dwellings in London. Yet somehow, on a rainy summer evening, in the midst of a global pandemic, Russia?s vengeful president...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (ca. 810 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The changeling: Beatrice-Joanna is betrothed to one man, but loves another. She hires her father's servant to kill her betrothed, but is then horrified at what she has done.
The apple cart: The king must match wits with an unruly mistress and a cabinet wanting a constitutional monarchy.
Caesar and Claretta: The story of Mussolini and his lover, Claretta Petacci on their last night together.
The philanthropist: A circle of friends talks of unimportant...
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