Travelling with books: Russia

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Now that we're reading Russian, why not take your books to Russia? Here are five books that will take you through both the Tsarist and Communist eras.

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5 books that take you to Russia

Today we present five books that will allow you to travel to Russia without leaving your doorstep. Very interesting reading!

1. Peter the Great by Henri Troyat - A biography of the Russian Tsar Peter the Great, who lived between 1672 and 1725. An interesting read that includes insights into the violent reforms that modernised the country...
2. House on the river Dvina by Eugenie Fraser - About growing up in Russia in the last years of the Tsarist era, and escaping to Scotland after the revolution.
3. White on black by Ruben Gallego - A book about growing up as a disabled child in an orphanage in "the happiest country in the world", the Soviet Union. A book about a cruel upbringing, written with warmth and black humour.
4. I want to live by Nina Lugovskaya - Nina grows up in Stalinist Moscow, where you can't say or even think what you want. But Nina writes in her diary... These are Nina's diaries, found in the KGB archives some years ago.
5. Goodbye my Kursk by Vera Efron - On 12 August 2000, the Kursk exploded deep in the Barents Sea. Vera tries to describe both the political turmoil and the last agonising days on board the submarine.

Previous posts in the series Travelling with books:

• Travelling with books: Eastern Europe
• Travelling with books: Africa
• Travelling with books: China

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