Book description
January 1917—With St. Petersburg on the brink of revolution, Sandro Ruzsky, the city’s chief police investigator, returns from exile in Siberia only to be assigned a grisly case: the bodies of a young couple found on the ice of the frozen River Neva, just outside the Tsar’s Winter Palace. Ruzsky’s…
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1 author picked The White Russian as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Set in St. Petersburg in 1917, it paints a fascinating portrait of Russia of the verge of revolution and civil war, with the aristocrats in hedonistic denial. A page-turning mystery, it is the first I've read where the Tsarina makes an appearance. Nice work.
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