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1	The Ruling Families of Rus: Clan, Family and Kingdom by Christian Raffensperger 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
1	Sevastopol’s Wars: Crimea from Potemkin to Putin by Mungo Melvin 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Portraits of Medieval Eastern Europe, 900–1400 by Donald Ostrowski (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Army Wives: From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform by Midge Gillies 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie 4.16 avg rating — 23,421 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Anóoshi Lingít Aaní Ká, Russians in Tlingit America: The Battles of Sitka, 1802 and 1804 by Nora Marks Dauenhauer (Editor) 4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie 3.95 avg rating — 109,385 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Russia's Path toward Enlightenment: Faith, Politics, and Reason, 1500-1801 by Gary M. Hamburg 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes 4.25 avg rating — 4,525 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Russian Folk Belief by Linda J. Ivanits really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 233 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar by Edvard Radzinsky 4.06 avg rating — 784 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature by Viv Groskop (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 1,675 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Red Fortress: The Secret Heart of Russia's History by Catherine Merridale 3.88 avg rating — 587 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of the Golden Age by Sara Wheeler 3.61 avg rating — 396 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Potemkin: Catherine the Great's Imperial Partner by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 976 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The rare and extraordinary History of Holy Russia: With over 500 illustrations by Gustave Doré 3.54 avg rating — 61 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk 4.33 avg rating — 9,577 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Moscow 1812: Napoleon's Fatal March by Adam Zamoyski 4.37 avg rating — 2,851 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Memoirs of Catherine the Great by Catherine II 3.85 avg rating — 535 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Catherine the Great by Henri Troyat 4.10 avg rating — 3,076 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Catherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power by Virginia Rounding (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 1,454 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Great Catherine: The Life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia by Carolly Erickson 3.84 avg rating — 1,438 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	The House of the Dead: Siberian Exile Under the Tsars by Daniel Beer really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 516 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretive History of Russian Culture by James H. Billington 4.09 avg rating — 405 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	St. Petersburg: A Cultural History by Solomon Volkov 4.19 avg rating — 161 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia by Suzanne Massie 4.19 avg rating — 497 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	Tolstoy: A Russian Life by Rosamund Bartlett 4.17 avg rating — 786 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Ivan the Terrible by Henri Troyat 3.90 avg rating — 636 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	Ivan the Terrible by Robert Payne 3.97 avg rating — 329 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	St. Petersburg: Madness, Murder, and Art on the Banks of the Neva by Jonathan Miles 3.96 avg rating — 301 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation by Serhii Plokhy 4.07 avg rating — 925 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Catherine the Great by Simon Dixon 3.66 avg rating — 516 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Conquest of a Continent: Siberia and the Russians by W. Bruce Lincoln 4.21 avg rating — 104 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of the Empress Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928) by Coryne Hall 4.22 avg rating — 206 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Ivan the Terrible by Isabel de Madariaga 3.51 avg rating — 247 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	Ivan the Terrible: A Life from Beginning to End by Hourly History 3.84 avg rating — 301 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Russia's Steppe Frontier: The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800 by Michael Khodarkovsky 3.83 avg rating — 139 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	The Empress of Art by Susan Jaques (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 138 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia by Evgenii V. Anisimov 3.83 avg rating — 72 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia by W. Bruce Lincoln 3.82 avg rating — 194 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Reimagining Europe: Kievan Rus’ in the Medieval World, 988–1146 by Christian Raffensperger 4.03 avg rating — 33 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	The Kingdom of Rus' by Christian Raffensperger 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Ties of Kinship: Genealogy and Dynastic Marriage in Kyivan Rus´ (Harvard Series in Ukrainian Studies) by Christian Raffensperger it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	East of the Sun: The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia by Benson Bobrick 4.09 avg rating — 166 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	A History of Russian Literature: From Its Beginnings to 1900 by D.S. Mirsky 4.01 avg rating — 82 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Russia and the Golden Horde: The Mongol Impact on Medieval Russian History by Charles J. Halperin 3.68 avg rating — 250 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	The Princess of Siberia : The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles by Christine Sutherland 4.05 avg rating — 107 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales by Serge A. Zenkovsky (Editor) 3.80 avg rating — 210 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Medieval Russia, 980–1584 (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks) by Janet Martin 3.67 avg rating — 108 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	Medieval Russia: A Captivating Guide to Russian History during the Middle Ages by Captivating History 4.06 avg rating — 78 ratings score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	A Bride for the Tsar: Bride-Shows and Marriage Politics in Early Modern Russia (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) by Russell E. Martin 4.29 avg rating — 24 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Russia in the Age of Peter the Great by Lindsey Hughes 4.02 avg rating — 40 ratings score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Emergence Of Rus: 750-1200 by Simon Franklin 4.09 avg rating — 47 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	War in the East: A Military History of the Russo-Turkish War 1877-78 by Quintin Barry 4.10 avg rating — 39 ratings score: 55, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854 - 1856 by Trevor Royle 3.82 avg rating — 302 ratings score: 54, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Vladimir, the Russian Viking by Vladimir Volkoff 3.97 avg rating — 70 ratings score: 53, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	The Battle that Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire by Peter Englund 4.04 avg rating — 865 ratings score: 52, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia by Robert D. Crews 3.81 avg rating — 90 ratings score: 51, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Nicholas I: Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias by W. Bruce Lincoln 3.82 avg rating — 62 ratings score: 50, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus by Lucy Ward 4.02 avg rating — 281 ratings score: 49, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century by Jerome Blum 3.90 avg rating — 40 ratings score: 48, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Russia in the Early Modern World: The Continuity of Change by Donald Ostrowski 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 47, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars