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Défendre cette femme... Effacer les clichés qui la défigurent. Briser le masque que le mépris a scellé sur son visage. Aimer cette femme dont tant d’hommes n’ont su que convoiter le corps et envier le pouvoir. C’est cette passion qui anime le cinéaste russe Oleg Erdmann, désireux de sonder le mystère de la Grande Catherine. Qui était-elle? Une cruelle Messaline russo-allemande aux penchants nymphomanes? Une tsarine clamant son âme républicai...

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Le premier concert du jeune pianiste Alexeï Berg est annoncé pour le 24 mai 1941. Fin du long purgatoire que sa famille a vécu durant les années de terreur. Promesse d'oubli, de célébrité future, de nouvelles rencontres parmi la jeunesse dorée de la capitale... Or, ce concert n'aura pas lieu. La vie d'Alexeï se jouera sur une partition différente, marquée par l'amour s...

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Aux confins de l’Extrême-Orient russe, dans le souffle du Pacifique, s’étendent des terres qui paraissent échapper à l’Histoire… Qui est donc ce criminel aux multiples visages, que Pavel Gartsev et ses compagnons doivent capturer à travers l’immensité de la taïga ? C’est l’aventure de cette longue chasse à l’homme qui nous est contée...

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Originally published in French under the title Le crime d'Olga Arbaelina: [Paris]: Mercure de France, 1998.

They are virtual brothers, Arkady and Alyosha, young pioneers in Stalin's postwar world, marching to the clarion call of socialism, to the stirring beat of the drums. The future, they are assured, is bright and beautiful. But what, then, are those endless miles of barbed wire they encounter everywhere along their route?This is the moving, two-generational tale of two families, those of Yakov Zinger and Pyotr Yevdokimov, fathers of the two youn...

Set in the Soviet Union from World War II until the early 1990s, " A Hero's Daughter" portrays the rise and decline of the Soviet Union through the story of Ivan Dimitrovich Davidov and his family. For his extraordinary bravery and courage beyond the call of duty at the Battle of Stalingrad, Ivan is awarded his country's highest military honor: Hero of the Soviet Union. Married after the war to Tatyana, the medical orderly who found him barely...

In this remarkable novel, which spans eighty years of the twentieth century, Andreï Makine describes, beautifully but unsparingly, the almost uninterrupted succession of violence, misery, and horror that has been visited on the Russian people since the October Revolution of 1917. For those quick to forget, or too young to remember, he paints a graphic portrait of those years in a three-generational novel that is as moving as it is revealing.A ...

Rich in symbolism and swathed in enigmatic lyricism. Guardian

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Catherine the Great's life seems to have been made for the cinema. Countless love affairs and wild sexual escapades, betrayal, revenge, murder - there is no shortage of historical drama. But Oleg Erdmann, a young Russian filmmaker, seeks to discover and portray the real Catherine, her essential, emotional truth.When he is dropped from the film he initially scripted - his name summarily excised from the credits - Erdmann is cast adrift in a cha...

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An astounding novel that penetrates the 20th-century experience, from one of Europe's most feted authors

Tijdens het communistische bewind in Rusland komt Dmitri Ress na vele liefdeservaringen tot de conclusie dat het in de liefde, net als in de politiek, niet om duurzaam geluk en idealen gaat. We leren onder meer Maja, Vika en Leonora kennen en hoe die eeuwige korte liefdes, de kortstondige momenten waarop geluk in zijn puurste vorm te proeven is, de momenten zijn waar het allemaal om draait.

Makine closes his epic 20th-century Russian trilogy with a poignant, tender ode to the power of wartime...

An accomplished, affecting work, psychologically complex, written in a lyrical, sparely impassioned prose that serves as a kind of magnifying glass on a fabulously exotic experience." The New York...

Literary fiction about a Russian who suffers under Stalin's reign of terror. Winner of the Grand Prix RTL-Lire in France. "Extraordinary" Allan Massie.