Russian Biographies

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    • The Inside Story of the FBI and Robert Hanssen—America’s Most Damaging Russian Spy
    • By: Lis Wiehl
    • Narrated by: Lis Wiehl
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 7 ratings
    • A legal analyst for NPR, NBC, and CNN, delves into the facts surrounding what has been called the “worst intelligence disaster in US history”: the case of Robert Hanssen—a Russian spy who was embedded in the FBI for two decades....

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    • The Story of Russia and its Empire 1613-1918
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Simon Russell Beale
    • Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 03-03-2016
    • Language: English
    • 214 ratings
    • The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world's surface. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world's greatest empire? And how did they lose it all? This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius...

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    • The Last Tsar and his Family
    • By: Robert K. Massie
    • Narrated by: Orlando Wells
    • Series: The Romanovs, Great Lives, Book Great Lives: The Romanovs
    • Length: 27 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 26-05-2026
    • Language: English
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    • Bloomsbury presents Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie, read by Orlando Wells. A superbly crafted and humane portrait of the final days of the last Romanovs – Nicholas II of Russia and his wife Alexandra. Complementing his Pulitzer prize-winning Peter the Great, in this commanding book...

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    • Boris “Biba” Nayfeld and the Rise of the Russian Mob in America
    • By: Douglas Century
    • Narrated by: Sean Pratt, Gregory Korostishevsky
    • Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-07-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 ratings
    • Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba, one of the most notorious Russian mob bosses of our era. Boris Nayfeld, a.k.a. “Biba,” is the last living boss of the old-school Russian mob in America, and he’s...

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    • The explosive account of how Putin poisoned Alexei Navalny
    • By: John Sweeney
    • Narrated by: John Sweeney
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-2024
    • Language: English
    • 4 ratings
    • 'Murder in the Gulag is brilliant journalistic writing: punchy, eloquent, page-turning and factual. It's a powerful reminder of what an extraordinary man Navalny was' - Roland Oliphant, Telegraph The gripping sequel to the bestselling Killer in the Kremlin, revised and updated for paperback...

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    • The Biography
    • By: Douglas Smith
    • Narrated by: PJ Ochlan
    • Length: 33 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 17-11-2016
    • Language: English
    • 16 ratings
    • A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody twentieth century. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his...

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    • Power, Love and the Russian Empire
    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Sophie Roberts
    • Length: 27 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-2019
    • Language: English
    • 8 ratings
    • 'One of the great love stories of history, in a league with Napoleon and Josephine, and Antony and Cleopatra ... Excellent, with dazzling mastery of detail and literary flair' Economist It was history's most successful political partnership - as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary...

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    • The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
    • By: David Satter
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 28-02-2023
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating
    • Anticipating a new dawn of freedom after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Russians could hardly have foreseen the reality of their future a decade later: a country impoverished and controlled at every level by organized crime....

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    • A Life Between Worlds
    • By: Frank Costigliola
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 22 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of containing...

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    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
    • Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-2025
    • Language: English
    • 1 rating
    • Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet...

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    • The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
    • By: Rosemary Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Karen Cass
    • Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-2015
    • Language: English
    • 3 ratings
    • Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography PEN Literary Award Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist New York Times Notable Book Washington Post Notable Book Boston Globe Best Book of the Year The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched...

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    • By: Catherine Merridale
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 21-04-2017
    • Language: English
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    • In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich....

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    • By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
    • Narrated by: Sean Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 14-05-2007
    • Language: English
    • 29 ratings
    • Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research, here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son became a student priest, romantic poet...

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    • Putin's Nemesis, Russia's Future?
    • By: Jan Matti Dollbaum, Morvan Lallouet, Ben Noble
    • Narrated by: Rob Heaps
    • Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 24-05-2022
    • Language: English
    • 2 ratings
    • A fascinating account of Russia's famous dissident and the politics he embodies. Who is Alexei Navalny? Poisoned in August 2020 and transported to Germany for treatment, the politician returned to Russia in January 2021 in the full glare of the world media. His immediate detention at passport...

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    • Человек, который умел всё на свете
    • By: Тим Скоренко
    • Narrated by: Юрий Красиков
    • Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2026
    • Language: Russian
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    • Кто такой Иван Кулибин? Что он изобрёл и как сложилась судьба этих изобретений? Иван Кулибин был великим механиком и изобретателем, гением-самоучкой, имя которого со временем стало нарицательным.

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    • By: Ляля Кандаурова
    • Narrated by: Юрий Красиков
    • Length: 27 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-2026
    • Language: Russian
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    • Сергей Рахманинов—гениальный русский композитор, пианист и дирижёр, один из самых выдающихся музыкальных деятелей XX века. Его произведения отличаются удивительной красотой, эмоциональностью и мощью; их знают и любят во всём мире. Вместе с тем Рахманинов—человек необычайно яркой и интересной судьбы.

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