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Historical Fictionistas, I'm calling upon your expertise! Just finished Push Not the River, and found the historical setting (18th century Poland) interesting even if the writing was a little melodramatic. I'm really interested in Central and Eastern European history and would really appreciate recommendations for HF set in the region. (Or even interesting nonfiction!)

Ideally, I'm searching for books dealing with events other than WWI or WWII-- I feel like those topics are overrepresented in HF right now. Also, I love Russian history but in this case am specifically seeking HF set in places besides Russia.

So any ideas? :)

Henryk Sienkiewicz is probably as well-known to Polish readers as Charles Dickens is to English readers and Alexandre Dumas is to the French. His most famous work is a historical trilogy starting with With Fire and Sword. I confess I haven't read this, but I have seen the film!

If you're interested in post-war Hungary, I really enjoyed the black humour in Under the Frog by Tibor Fischer.

I'd love recommendations in this category too.
And I Darken is a YA genderbent retelling of Vlad the Impaler.
The Hangman's Daughter is set in Bavaria.
I've also got Linda Lafferty's work on my TBR:
The Bloodletter's Daughter: A Novel of Old Bohemia
The Drowning Guard: A Novel of the Ottoman Empire
House of Bathory
The Girl Who Fought Napoleon: A Novel of the Russian Empire

While they obviously focus on Austria, The Accidental Empress and Sisi: Empress on Her Own do include a look at the aristocracy of Bavaria (where Empress Elisabeth is from) and Hungary (where she prefers to escape from the Austrian court). I'll be interested to see what suggestions this thread brings-not a region I usually focus on.

Non-fiction - I really liked Rosemary Kavan's memoirs as an Englishwoman moving to Prague with her husband after WW II
Love and Freedom: My Unexpected Life in Prague

A few I own but haven't read yet:
More Was Lost - memoir, Hungary
Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968

Fiction:
The Journal of Countess Francoise Krasinska - Poland
Miklos Banffy's Transylvanian Trilogy
They Were Counted