Adventure Quote by Deanna Raybourn

“Her profession? Ah! as to that, English readers, try not to be too severe. Russia is a great, but hard mistress, who demands of…

— Emmuska Orczy

“Dominika shuddered inside. The Kremlin. Majestic buildings, gilded ceilings, soaring halls, all filled to the rafters with deceit, rapacious greed, and cruelty. A Palace…

— Jason Matthews

“To understand Russia today, you must understand the trauma of the nineties. Everything we had, everything we had been told, was swept away. We…

— Daniel Silva

“Better by far that famous poster of the Red Army woman with one hand on her hip, another on her bemedaled breast, standing sentry-straight…

— William T. Vollmann

“We want what the woman wanted in the prison queue in Leningrad, standing there with cold and whispering for fear, enduring the terror of…

— Seamus Heaney

“dangers of her past. She cared about what he provided in an otherwise dangerous world. “Russia is a hard place,” she said quietly, “or…

— Danielle Steel

I love the flamboyance, the melodrama, the bloody theatre of Russian history.

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“And what an honour to have been chosen. How silly to have been so frightened! Naturally the great leaders of the State would not…

— Ian Fleming

“We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am thinking, if this too was…

— Stephen Fry

“Her conversation was like a Russian newspaper, remarkable for what is left unsaid.”

— Guy Thorne

The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family's home life during the last years…

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“One of the most remarkable things about Antonina was her determination to include play, animals, wonder, curiosity, marvel, and a wide blaze of innocence…

— Diane Ackerman