Books like Rasputin's daughter by Alexander, Robert

Charles Dickens’ landmark historical novel, set in London and Paris during the French Revolution, follows Doctor Manette’s 18‑year imprisonment, his release, and his reunion with daughter Lucie amid looming terror.

In London, 1794, four wealthy fathers employ their daughters' budding pianism to secure fashionable marriages, while flirtations and ambitions collide amid late‑Georgian society and the world of Italian piano-making.

A wealthy Alabama planter confesses his hidden past when he marries off his daughter to a husband who rejects their child, forcing his family into a web of secrets that threatens to unravel their prosperity.

When Sarah Wright and her father Ephraim relocate to Salem Village in 1692, they become entangled in the witchcraft trials; Sarah must summon courage to free her father from jail.

Lydia Ivanova embarks from 1929 China to Soviet Moscow to uncover the fate of her father, a political prisoner, leaving behind love and childhood ties to chase truth amid Stalinist danger.

Grigory Efimovich Rasputin came to St. Petersburg from his Siberian cabin in 1903 like a projectile from the medieval past, tattered, black-clad, muttering. By the time he was murdered thirteen years later, the peasant was the "beloved Friend" of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra and the sponsor of the most powerful officials in Russia. He had become, a society lady wrote, "a dusk enveloping all our world, eclipsing the sun. How could so pitiful a wretch throw so vast a shadow? It was inexplicable, maddening, almost incredible.". Rasputin's name has become synonymous with evil, but his legend has obscured the facts of his life. In this evocative biography, Brian Moynahan presents us with a flesh-and-blood Rasputin, more fascinating than the myth - a man in whom debauchery coexisted beside a real (if erratic) spiritual sense, a man whose coarseness hid a savvy awareness of human psychology. Drawing on confidential police reports, cabinet meeting memos, and other documents, some available only since the fall of the Soviet Union, Moynahan sheds new light on Rasputin's life and disputes some of the widely held details of his death.

An authoritative biography that reveals how Grigory Rasputin, the mystic monk whose influence on the late Romanovs helped spark the Russian Revolution, shaped the fall of tsarist Russia.

At Selden Manor in 18th‑century Buckinghamshire, a secluded daughter of a Newton‑student alchemist must choose between fatal scientific experiments and her first love, leading her to London where she confronts society’s glamour and harsh realities.