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I like to read a lot about Russian history. Check out Robert K. Massie's stuff. He has a bio on Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, and Nicholas and Alexandra Romanov. Nicholas and Alexandra is my favorite one.
He also wrote something called The Romanovs:The Final Chapter. It's about the aftermath of the assassination of the Romanov family, all the imposters who claimed they were the children who really survived(most famously Anastasia), and the conclusive DNA tests eventually done.
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege
A People's Tradgedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
The Romanovs: Autocrats of all the Russians(deals with 1613-1917 mostly)
You can also get quite a bit of info about life from Russian fiction, particularly the 19th century greats. Tolstoy(bit of a long-winded mother fucker, though), Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov, Etc.
He also wrote something called The Romanovs:The Final Chapter. It's about the aftermath of the assassination of the Romanov family, all the imposters who claimed they were the children who really survived(most famously Anastasia), and the conclusive DNA tests eventually done.
Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege
A People's Tradgedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar
The Romanovs: Autocrats of all the Russians(deals with 1613-1917 mostly)
You can also get quite a bit of info about life from Russian fiction, particularly the 19th century greats. Tolstoy(bit of a long-winded mother fucker, though), Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov, Etc.