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    Russka Part 1 of 2

    July 20,
    No country on Earth can boast a more tumultuous history than Russia. Born in the clash of marauding nomadic tribes nearly 2, years ago, this sprawling Euro-Asiatic nation has witnessed repeated bouts of foreign incursions, ethnic conflict, revolution, and a millennium of autocratic, and often heartless, rule. To portray the grand sweep of Russian history in fiction seems an impossible task. But the British novelist Edward Rutherfurd has managed to do so to a remarkable degree in just under 1, pages in Russka.

    FOUR FAMILIES EMBODY THE UPS AND DOWNS OF RUSSIAN HISTORY
    Rutherfurd traces the intertwined lives of four families over the 1, years during which the Russian state has come to formed. The action frequently shifts from Kiev, to Moscow, to St. Petersburg, but the story’s center of gravity lies in a small village called Russka. All four families—the Bobrovs, Suvorins, Karpenkos, and Romanovs—trace their roots there.

    Their faces, and their lives, refl

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    Russka

    RUSSKA is a mighty novel that spans 1, years of Russia's history, people, politics and culture from the ancient wandering tribes on the great Eurasian plain to the present day. The story follows the fortunes of fem intertwined families: the noble Bobrovs, serf Romanovs, Cossack Karpenkos; the Suvorins - Old Believers, capitalists and patrons of the arts; and lastly the Popovs, parish priests and revolutionaries.

    Members of these families seek their destinies through the old Russian period of golden Kiev, with its famous Orthodox cathedrals and monasteries, the terrible invasions of the Mongol descendants of Genghis Khan, the rise of Moscow and the boyars, and the dark days of Ivan the Terrible and his secret police. Modern times begin with the wild, romantic story of the Cossacks, the conflict between the indomitable westernizer, Peter the Great, and the religious Old Believers who bränna themselves alive rather than enter the europeanised world of St Petersburg. From this

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    Edward Rutherfurd

    English writer (born )

    Francis Edward Wintle (born ), known by his pen nameEdward Rutherfurd[1], is an English novelist. He is best known as a writer of epic historical novels that span long periods of history but are set in particular places. His debut novel, Sarum, set the pattern for his work with a ten-thousand-year storyline.

    Biography

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    Rutherfurd attended the University of Cambridge and Stanford Business School, where he earned a Sloan fellowship.[1][2] After graduating he worked in political research, bookselling and publishing.[2] He abandoned his career in the book trade in and returned to his childhood home to write Sarum, a historical novel with a ten-thousand year story, set in the area around the ancient monument of Stonehenge and Salisbury.[3]

    Sarum was published in and became an instant international best-seller, remaining for 23 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List.&#

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