Archives by Tag 'Russia'
Review: ‘The Lieutenant’s Lover’ by Harry Bingham
By oldenglishrose - Last updated: Friday, December 10, 2010
Title: The Lieutenant’s Lover Author: Harry Bingham Published: Harper, 2006, pp. 442. Originally published 2006 Blurb: Misha is an aristocratic young officer in the army when the Russian revolution sweeps away all his certainties. Tonya is a nurse from an impoverished family in St Petersburg. They should have been bitter enemies; and yet they fall [...]
Review: ‘Anna Karenina’ by Leo Tolstoy
By oldenglishrose - Last updated: Friday, August 20, 2010
Married to a powerful government minister, Anna Karenina is a beautiful woman who falls deeply in love with a wealthy army officer, the elegant Count Vronsky. Desperate to find truth and meaning in her life, she rashly defies the conventions of Russian society and leaves her husband and son to live with her lover. Condemned [...]