For readers of Philippa Gregory and Alison Weir comes a dramatic novel of the beloved Empress Maria, the Danish girl who became the mother of the last Russian tsar. Even from behind the throne, a woman can rule. Narrated by the mother of Russia's last tsar, this vivid, historically authentic novel brings to life the courageous story of Maria Feodorovna, one of Imperial Russia's most compelling women, who witnessed the...
A Gentleman in Moscow, the bestselling novel by Amor Towles is the inspiration for a new Showtime series about the fictional Russian aristocrat Count Alexander Rostov, placed on indefinite house arrest in an attic hotel room after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Here's what we know about the show and what fans can read next.