OMA BOOKS

1922: a count is sentenced to spend his life inside Moscow’s Hotel Metropol.

1953 onwards: three Moscow schoolfriends grow into the dissident generation.

2028: a day in the life of the Tsar’s enforcer in a new, walled-off Moscow.

1934: students from Moscow’s Arbat district grow up as Stalin’s purges begin.

A Soviet scholar recalls the elite Moscow building his childhood friends vanished from.

A drunk’s train ride out of Moscow, told one station and one drink at a time.

1930s: the devil comes to Moscow and turns its writers’ world upside down.

1812: Moscow’s old families face Napoleon, and the city burns.

1941–44: the siege of Leningrad, told through the diaries of those inside it.

1942: two prisoners must find a dozen eggs in besieged Leningrad.

1941: a family tries to survive the first winter of the siege of Leningrad.

A poor student in Petersburg’s hot, crowded tenements kills a pawnbroker.