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About Russka
Russka:
The Novel of Russia is an epic novel spanning nearly 2,000 years of Russia's
history. Edward Rutherford has written about a fictional small village in
the heartland of what would become modern Russia. The story follows a collection
of inter-related characters over multiple generations. The blurring of fact
and fiction can be confusing as many true aspects of Russian history and
culture are revealed in spinning this lush and rambling saga.
Russka opens early in the first millennium when the great forests of Asia supported nomadic people. Villages began to take root and settlements grew around valuable resources such as fresh water, salt deposits, farmable soil, etc. Marauding tribes fought with, conquered and intermingled with the native population. Eventually villages grew into defensible towns and cities. Russka moves through notable eras of history including the Tatar invasions; rise of the cossacks; reigns of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Nicholas; the prejudice against the Poles, Jews, Germans and others; and the rebellion against the ruling classes. It is a lot of ground to cover and Russka moves by at a fast pace. Edward Rutherford demonstrates an understandng of significant historical events and how to spin a great tale around them.
David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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Reviews
FROM THE PUBLISHER
"Impressive."
THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Spanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, poltics, and culture, Edward
Rurtherford, author of the phenomenally successful SARUM: THE NOVEL OF ENGLAND,
tells a grand saga that is as multifaceted as Russia itself. Here is a story
of a great civilization made human, played out through the lives of four
families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny
of their land.
"Rutherford's RUSSKA succeeds....[He] can take his place among an elite
cadre of chroniclers such as Harold Lamb, Maurice Hindus and Henri Troyat."
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Rutherfurd weaves an expansive tapestry of Russian lore in this sprawling,
occasionally soap-operatic historical novel--a seven-week PW bestseller
and a Literary Guild selection in cloth--which vividly explores the historical
influences on the modern Russian psyche. (Dec.)
Library Journal
In his newest novel, Rutherfurd does for Russia what his last novel, Sarum
( LJ 9/15/87), did for England. Focusing on a small farming community in
the Russian heartland between the Dnieper and the Don at the edge of the
steppes, he traces its growth through its inhabitants from the first Tatar
raid on the Slavs through the Cossacks, aristocrats, and an emigre's recent
return. These interconnected lives present a vast panoramic portrait of
Russia and its history. However, abundance of historic detail, fascinating
though it is, intrudes and overwhelms. Transitions from intertwined stories
of succeeding generations are abrupt and the reader longs for more character
and plot development. Recommended for devotees of James Michener and Sarum
. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/91.-- Cynthia Johnson Whealler, Cary
Memorial Lib., Lexington, Mass.
Kirkus Reviews
A well-written, episodic, dense, at times infuriatingly complex historical
saga of Russia by the author of the similarly massive Sarum, which tries—often
quite successfully—to re-create the evolution of a mysterious and
backward nation riddled with war, political confusion, and religious upheaval.
Crammed with exhaustive and obviously well-researched historical, geographical,
and cultural detail, this epic novel traces Russia's quest for freedom and
identity from A.D. 180 to the present. The primary storyline that finally
emerges depicts three rival families who have ties in the quintessential
village of Russka: the Bobrovs, gentried noblemen who ultimately lose their
precious land to the very serfs they once owned; the cunning Suvorins who
amass great wealth as merchants and industrialists; and their distant relations
the Romanovs, peasant farmers-cum- revolutionaries. Through the intricacies
of marriage, accidents of birth, and other twists and turns of fate, the
ancestors and descendants of these proud people move from one century to
the next, turning up as warring Alans, barbarous Tatars, bloodthirsty Cossacks,
and eventually the more familiar Socialists, Bolsheviks, and Marxists. Rutherfurd's
immense canvas allows a fictional cast in the hundreds to populate the same
world as Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, Tolstoy,
Voltaire, Pushkin, Lenin, Stalin, Shevchenko, Rasputin, etc., as they grapple
with catastrophic events—such as ritual self-immolation, torture by
knouting, cholera, and the pogroms. Despite the preponderance of names that
repeat themselves from one generation to the next (the plot is littered
with very old or very young Arinasand Maryushkas, for example)—a circumstance
that may befuddle the casual reader—Rutherfurd's opus extraordinaire
may captivate readers of the genre as well as serious history buffs. (Literary
Guild Dual Selection for October)
courtesy of Barnes & Noble
Author Biography
Edward Rutherfurd was born in Salisbury, England and educated at Cambridge University. He was a bookseller before he decided to become a writer. His first novel, Sarum, was an international bestseller. His subsequent novels, Russka' and London, were also bestsellers here and abroad.
courtesy of Random House Canada
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