Rutherfurd believes in adding color and adventure to facts that are exhaustively researched, making history palatable if not delicious." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "SPRAWLING. Rutherfurd can take his place among an elite cadre of chroniclers such as Harold Lamb, Maurice Hindus and Henri Troyat." San Francisco Chronicle "FAST-MOVING. Rutherfurd has indeed embraced all of Russia." The Washington Post Book World " RUSSKA SUCCEEDS WHERE OF TRENDY SOVIET-WATCHING HAVE FAILED. Rutherfurd's close observation of Russia's religious and ethnic diversity gives this epic a distinctive flavor." Publishers Weekly "RUTHERFURD LITERALLY PERSONIFIES HISTORY." New YorkDaily News, "Impressive. Rutherfurd has indeed embraced all of Russia." The Washington Post Book World "RUSSKASUCCEEDS WHERE OF TRENDY SOVIET-WATCHING HAVE FAILED. The nobleman who is a friend of Ivan IV of Russia and asks his territory to be part of the Oprichnina is also based on a member of the Stroganovs but at a different period."Impressive.
For example, the peasant family that joins the nobility, because of its business, is based on the Stroganovs.
The stories of different characters in those families use actual stories of different Russian families. Historical characters encountered through the narrative include Genghis Khan, Ivan the Terrible and his secret police, the westernizing Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, and the Bolsheviks of the twentieth century.
The five families span the main ethnic groups and social levels of the society in this northern empire. The families that provide the focus for the story are the Bobrovs, Romanovs, Karpenkos, Suvorins and Popovs. The narrative spans 1,800 years of Russian history. It quickly became a New York Times bestseller. Russka is a historical novel by Edward Rutherfurd, published in 1991 by Crown Publishers.
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