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  • Bibliography:
    8 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1993
  • Latest Book:
    August 2022
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Book List in Order: 8 titles



  • Timo von Bock's release by the Czar from nine years' incarceration does not spell the end of the Baron's troubles: he is confined to his Livonian estate to live under the constant eye of police informers planted among his own househol...





  • Widely read in Europe, the Estonian novelist Jaan Kross is considered one of the most important writers of the Baltic region, and is an often-named candidate for the Nobel Prize.

    His new historical novel, "Professor Martens' Departure," is writt...





  • Jaan Kross's historical novel "Sailing Against the Wind" fictionalizes the life of Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935), an Estonian-born inventor. Schmidt lost an arm in his youth while experimenting with a homemade rocket, resulting in psychological tra...



  • The first part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer Jaan Kross's trilogy dramatises the life of the renowned Livonian Chronicler Balthasar Russow, whose greatest work described the ...



  • The second part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer The year is 1563, and by any account Balthasar Russow can be said to have risen in the world. Fresh from his studies in the Germ...



  • The third part in an epic historical trilogy - The Estonian answer to Wolf Hall - by the nation's greatest modern writer 1578. A ship from Rostock arrives in Tallinn loaded with printed copies of Balthasar Russow's Chronicle - the culmination of our ...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jaan Kross has published 8 books.

Jaan Kross does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Book of Falsehoods, was published in August 2022.

The first book by Jaan Kross, Czar's Madman, was published in January 1993.

No. Jaan Kross does not write books in series.