Summary: A modern take on one of the most famous stories of all time. In 1805 when we first meet Pierre, Natasha, and Andrei, they are all part of St. Petersburg's glittering elite, but are fired up with youthful ambition to find meaning in their lives. As everything they thought they knew is questioned, Pierre, Andrei and Natasha find themselves in a time when Russian society is about to change forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2016

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAR

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series War 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV WAR

Summary: Sacha, a young girl from the late-19th-century Russian aristocracy, defies her parents and flees Saint Petersburg for the Great North, in search of her grandfather, the renowned scientist and Arctic explorer Oloukine.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY LON

Gorokhova, Elena.

Summary: Elena Gorokhova grows up in 1960's Leningrad where she discovers that beauty and passion can be found in unexpected places in Soviet Russia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 947 GOR

Anderson, M. T.

Summary: An amazing WW2 survival story of a time and place largely unfamiliar to today's teen reader: of an unlikely hero squeezed between the German invader and the Soviet government itself. Impeccably researched: eye-witness accounts provide anecdotal detail to a chilling story of the triumph of bravery and defiance in the face of terrifying odds.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 921 SHOSTAKOVICH, DMITRI AND

Fitch, Janet

Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FIT

Summary: Profiles the New York City Ballet, led by Ballet in Chief Peter Martins, during its 2003 engagement at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, marking the 20th anniversary of the death of ballet legend and New York City Ballet co-founder George Balanchine. Martins, members of the company, and various Russian dancers share their memories of Balanchine and discuss his influence. Includes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2009

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BRI

Simons, Paullina

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIM

Bennett, Vanora

Summary: "St. Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed by the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. She feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle, but revolution is in the air, and as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between her heart and her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEN

Whelan, Gloria.

Summary: In Leningrad in 1941, when Russia and Germany are at war, fourteen-year-old Georgi vows to help his family and his city during the terrible siege.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WHE

Belfoure, Charles

Summary: "St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives a life of luxury and comfort, by the side of his beautiful but spiteful wife, Princess Lara. But when Dimitri is confronted by the death and destruction wrought by a pogrom, he is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEL

Kladstrup, Kristin

Summary: "There are mice at the Mariinsky...Behind the walls of Saint Petersburg's famous theater live the world's tiniest dancers -- including Esmeralda, who has finally been accepted into the ranks of the Russian Mouse Ballet Company. A new ballet called The Nutcracker is set to debut at Christmastime, and Esmeralda has won the role of Clara. But when she learns that The Nutcracker features mice as...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J CD FIC KLA

Kostenevich, A. G. (Alʹbert Grigorʹevich)

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 1999

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 709.44 Koste

Summary: Built on the whim of a czar to rival the great capitals of Europe, St. Petersburg is unlike any other city in Russia. Bring the champagne and caviar as you explore this city of canals aboard a private water taxi. Marvel at the opulence of the Winter Palace and the treasures of the Hermitage and Russian Museums.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.7 RUD

Dunmore, Helen

Summary: Intertwines the love stories of two couples whose lives are forever changed after the 1941 siege on Leningrad.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2001

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUN

Rijckeghem, Jean-Claude van

Summary: "On January 27, 1962, a concert at the Maly Theatre in Leningrad is interrupted by a gunshot and an ex-state prisoner is arrested. At the police station, the mysterious gunman recalls the early summer of 1941... When the German army begins its invasion of Soviet Russia, four children are evacuated to the countryside: Maxim, the son of a senior Communist Party official; Pyotr, the son of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Dead Reckoning 2022

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RIJ

Dickinson, David.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIC

Dunmore, Helen

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUN