E. M. Almedingen

How well do we know that people we marry? Is it wrong to decide it's time to be honest? Is love enough to save a family? In The Retreat from Moscow, William Nicholson, the celebrated author of Shadowlands, tells the powerful story of a husband who decides to be truthful in his marriage, and of the wife and son whose lives will never be the same again. - from the back cover.

The author relates memories of both the good and bad sides of St. Petersburg during her childhood in that city from 1898 until just prior to the Russian Revolution.

When he decides to become an artist, a Renaissance boy is disowned by disapproving brothers and friends.

A biography of the author's grandmother, a nineteenth-century English girl who married one of the richest men in Russia.

Reminiscences of a gently bred Russian-English woman through the better years of her youth in Russia during the early twentieth century. For other editions, see Author Catalog.

Based on the life of Ellen Sarah Southee.

Peter, a Russian peasant boy, twelve years old in the year 1739 and full of dreams, chances to cross paths with the exiled Princess Elizabeth and comes to realize his fate is linked to hers.

After being jilted by her fiancé, a young girl persuades her father to let her enter the business world rather than a convent.

In spite of his recent betrothal and fear of Saracen invasion, an eighth-century Frankish boy obtains his father's skeptical permission to live for a time at the neighboring abbey in order to learn to read.

A retelling of the medieval Germanic saga of Princess Gudrun, kidnapped by a rejected suitor and held captive while her father battled her captor and her betrothed sought her release.

A compilation of the writings of Frances Poltoratsky, novelist and historian, which tell of her childhood in Russia, France, and England.