Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Crown and the Crucible | 1991 | Michael Phillips | Buy |
| 2 | A House Divided | 1992 | Michael Phillips | Buy |
| 3 | Travail and Triumph | 1992 | Michael Phillips | Buy |
| 4 | Heirs of the Motherland | 1993 | Michael Phillips | Buy |
| 5 | The Dawning of Deliverance | 2015 | Michael Phillips | Buy |
| 6 | White Nights, Red Morning | 2015 | Michael Phillips | Buy |
| 7 | Passage into Light | 2015 | Michael Phillips | Buy |
The Russians is one of Michael Phillips’s most expansive series, following a Russian aristocratic family across seven novels set during some of the most turbulent decades in Russian history. The Crown and the Crucible opens in the era of the Tsars, and the series progresses through revolution, civil war, and the early Soviet period. Phillips co-wrote the first volumes with Judith Pella, who also collaborated on the Stonewycke books.
The series charts the family’s physical displacement and spiritual endurance as their world is transformed by political violence. Later volumes, reissued in 2015, extend the story from the chaos of revolution into the family’s search for stability and faith in a changed Russia.