He can take his place among an elite cadre of chroniclers. The nobleman who is a friend of Ivan IV of Russia and asks his territory to be part of the Oprichnina is also based on a member of the Stroganovs but at a different period. In Russka, Rutherford transforms the epic of a great civilization into a human story of flesh and blood, boldness and action, chronicling the lives of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shapin the destiny of their land. For example, the peasant family that joins the nobility, because of its business, is based on the Stroganovs. The stories of different characters in those families use actual stories of different Russian families. THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDSpanning 1800 years of Russias history, people, poltics, and culture, Edward Rurtherford. In this novel of historical fiction, we observe the antipathy and complicated relationship that has existed between. Historical characters encountered through the narrative include Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible and his secret police, the westernizing Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and the Bolsheviks of the twentieth century. The five families span the main ethnic groups and social levels of the society in this northern empire. My oldest aunt spoke quite fluent Russian. The families that provide the focus for the story are the Bobrovs, Romanovs, Karpenkos, Suvorins and Popovs. My grandfather, though English, lived abroad, including a period in Russia during Tsarist times.

The narrative spans 1,800 years of Russian history. Russka is the story of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of Russia. With his second sprawling historical novel, Rutherfurd moves from his hometown of. It quickly became a New York Times bestseller. Crown Publishing Group, 25 (0pp) ISBN 978-8-6. My grandfather, though English, lived abroad, including a period in Russia during Tsarist times. Russka is a historical novel by Edward Rutherfurd, published in 1991 by Crown Publishers. In your second book, Russka, you told the story of Russia.

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