Books
Books about Imperial Russia (14 books)
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Phase
Imperial Russia
1721–1917 CE
Imperial Russia was ruled by the Romanov dynasty and stretched across Europe and Asia. It contained nobles, serfs, soldiers, Orthodox clergy, minorities, reformers and revolutionaries within a highly unequal society. Expansion and autocracy existed beside periodic reform and cultural brilliance.
The phase matters because the empire’s strengths and weaknesses shaped everything that followed. Serfdom, censorship, court politics, military service and radical underground movements created deep narrative tension. Russian historical fiction often moves between palaces, estates, prisons, villages, battlefields and exile routes.
Russian Revolution and Soviet-era fiction connects to Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Ken Follett's Century trilogy, Robert Harris's Archangel, Amor Towles's A Gentleman in Moscow, Paullina Simons and novels about Stalinism, exile and siege. Spy and political thrillers also use Soviet power, purges and Cold War state security as central machinery. These entries can group family sagas, revolutionary fiction, gulag narratives, wartime novels and ideological thrillers.
Related people for Imperial Russia
Alexander II of Russia1818–1881 Alexander I of Russia1777–1825 Catherine the Great1729-1796 FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan1788–1855 Genghis Khan1162–1227 Ivan the Terrible1530–1584 James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan1797–1868 Joseph Stalin1878–1953 Kublai Khan1215–1294 Mao Zedong1893–1976 Mikhail Kutuzov1747–1813 Modu Chanyu Napoleon1769–1821 Nicholas I of Russia1796–1855 Pyotr Bagration1765–1812 Victoria1819–1901 Vladimir Lenin1870–1924
Non Fiction
Non Fiction about Imperial Russia (1 book)
Histories, biographies and reference works are listed separately from the historical novels above.