Requiem for a Lost Empire

Ranging from the time of the czar to the fall of Communism, this multigenerational saga follows the lives and fortunes of one Russian family over the course of eighty turbulent years, from the involvement of Nicholas, the protagonist's grandfather, in the 1920s to the recruitment of Pavel, his grandson, by the KGB. By the author of Dreams of My Russian Summer. 30,000 first printing.