Me and My Russian Wife


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My Russian Wife. Моя русская жена.


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Insights and reflections about being a couple with different cultural background. Bilingual book: Russian and English. The book “My Russian Wife” is not a typical book about love and romance. It is about how you build a loving and lasting relationship despite of differences, but the book also contains insights about several aspects that are just as relevant for business as for the personal life. Quotes from the book “My experience is that women are very easy to win over if ... ” “Isn’t it boring to live in Switzerland?” “But you don’t have berezka (birch trees) here, don’t you miss the Russian berezka?!” “A nice, long and complicated toast will always be highly regarded.” “Being a Russian mother also means believing your child is always on the brink of starvation.” “When did you kiss mama for the first time?”




Russian Wife


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The Imperial Wife


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"The Imperial Wife is a smart, engaging novel that parallels two fascinating worlds and two singular women. Irina Reyn writes beautifully of immigrants, art and the vagaries of love". --Jess Walter, National Book Award finalist and author of the New York Times bestseller, Beautiful Ruins Two women's lives collide when a priceless Russian artifact comes to light. Tanya Kagan, a rising specialist in Russian art at a top New York auction house, is trying to entice Russia's wealthy oligarchs to bid on the biggest sale of her career, The Order of Saint Catherine, while making sense of the sudden and unexplained departure of her husband. As questions arise over the provenance of the Order and auction fever kicks in, Reyn takes us into the world of Catherine the Great, the infamous 18th-century empress who may have owned the priceless artifact, and who it turns out faced many of the same issues Tanya wrestles with in her own life. Suspenseful and beautifully written, The Imperial Wife asks whether we view female ambition any differently today than we did in the past. Can a contemporary marriage withstand an “Imperial Wife”?




The Russian Wife


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Fraud, forgery and murder, set in the high-stakes world of fine art. 'Barry Maitland is one of Australia's finest crime writers.' - Sunday Tasmanian 'Maitland stacks his characters in interesting piles, and lets his mystery burn busily and bright.' - Courier-Mail When the Russian wife of the owner of one of the most valuable private collections of modern art in the UK is found dead, Detective Chief Inspector David Brock is drawn into a high-stakes world very different to his own. From the dealers and galleries in London's West End, his investigations take him to Hanover, Miami and New York on the trail of international forgery and fraud. At the same time, his old colleague Detective Chief Inspector Kathy Kolla, who now leads one of the Metropolitan Police Murder Investigation teams, finds herself at the wrong end of a corruption charge. With her whole career in the balance, she will do almost anything to clear her name. 'No one drops so many wonderful threads to a story or ties them so satisfyingly together at the end.' - The Australian 'Maitland is right up there with Ruth Rendell in my book.' - Australian Book Review




How to Happily Survive Marriage to a Russian Woman


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Kitty, I think that was a good book, one that comes from the heart of a real person. What I mean by that is it sounds true, like someone who it really happened to wrote it. I personally loved it. I read it about four times, and I still am not sick of it. And that's the truth. I love how it takes feelings, and emotions and puts it together. It really seemed like you got into Erma's feelings. How she was at first singled out by others. All just for something she didn't even want. All she left behind for that. Plust it teaches you about the Amish way of life. So I think the book really teaches you a lot, about Amish society, real feelings, and a lot more. I loved the book, people I know loved the book. In other words it's a good book. Love, Stephie Haas The first time I heard your story was in 6th grade when you were teaching my class. You read chapters of it to us everyday. It rocked!! Personally, it made me want to go be Amish for a little while there. I use to always think it had to be so hard to be Amish, but after you read it to the class, it totally switched my thoughts around (not saying I always have thoughts!) All my friends that heard or read this book loved it! Hope you write a sequel! Lots of love, Brittany Giebel Hey Kitty, I really liked reading your spectacular book. I've always wondered what it would be like to live the Amish lifestyle. Having no electricity, running water, or indoor bathroom would be a bummer. I think that you should make a sequel because I would really enjoy reading it because it's fun to read about someone my own age. I would probably be like Erma and sneak in my CD player because I LOVE music, too!!!! Mary Pat Speerstra




My Official Wife


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Excerpt from My Official Wife: A Novel My daughter had met and been married to this gentleman in Japan. It was in her interest, and to see her again, I was visiting Russia for the first time. I had left my Wife in Paris. She dreaded the rigors of a semi-arctic winter, and awaited my report ere deciding to visit our child, who had only spent a few weeks with us in America, and then hastened to a new home and strange but kindly relatives on the death of her husband in the Russian service in Asia. Clanging bells and shrieking whistles announced our arrival at Eydtkuhnen, the frontier of Holy Russia. Here the road changes to a six-foot gauge, so as to prevent any sudden invasion. This forces an inevitable delay in transferring from the standard gauge at the Russian frontier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.