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Odyssey Guide Moscow, St. Petersburg & The Golden Ring

by Masha Nordbye | Patricia Lanza

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2007
• PAPER
• 728 PAGES
• BEST SELLER

A comprehensive guide to the art, culture and history of two great Russian cities, filled with maps and fine color photographs. (RUS78, $26.95)

Russia, A Concise History

by Ronald Hingley

• HISTORY
• 2003
• PAPER
• 224 PAGES
• BEST SELLER

Well-known scholar Hingley sketches Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to a multi-ethnic empire in this highly readable, well-illustrated brief history. (RUS04, $19.95)

Lenin's Tomb

by David Remnick

• HISTORY
• 1994
• PAPER
• 588 PAGES

A gripping eyewitness tale of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Remnick, the Washington Post reporter on the scene, combines fine historical scholarship with great storytelling. (RUS07, $17.00)

Land of the Firebird, The Beauty of Old Russia

by Suzanne Massie

• HISTORY
• 1995
• PAPER
• 496 PAGES
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE

Massie traces both minuscule details and larger movements in pre-revolutionary Russian art, literature and daily life in this affectionate overview of 19th-century palaces, courts and culture. (RUS21, $35.00)

Russia from St. Petersburg to Moscow Map

by Falk Maps

• 2009
• MAP
• BEST SELLER
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A detailed map of northwest Russia at a scale of 1:750,000, well-suited for a river cruise between St. Petersburg and Moscow. It covers all but the northernmost extent of the route. (RUS06, $17.95)

 

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Moscow Map

by ITMB

• MAP

A handy, folding map of Moscow. (RUS151, $11.95)

St. Petersburg Map

by Borch Maps

• MAP

A detailed, laminated city plan of St. Petersburg, with street index inset. Place names are in transliterated English. (RUS89, $7.95)

Culture Smart! Russia

by Anna King

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2007
• PAPER
• 168 PAGES

A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (RUS361, $9.95)

Eyewitness Guide Moscow

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 263 PAGES

This outstanding guide covers Moscow's culture, history and attractions with maps, site plans and hundreds of color photographs. (RUS164, $23.00)

Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg

by Eyewitness Guides

• GUIDEBOOK
• 2010
• PAPER
• 264 PAGES
• BEST SELLER

With excellent local maps and site plans, this outstanding visual guide introduces the culture, history and attractions of St. Petersburg. (RUS87, $25.00)

Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook

by James Jenkin | Inna Zaitseva

• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
• 2009
• PAPER
• 256 PAGES

A handy shirtpocket phrasebook for Russian basics focusing on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (RUS111, $8.99)

A Traveller's History of Russia

by Peter Neville

• HISTORY
• 2006
• PAPER
• 336 PAGES

An impressively compact, lively survey of Russian history from the coming of the Slavs to the collapse of the Soviet Union. (RUS47, $14.95)

Catherine the Great

by Robert K. Massie

• HISTORY
• 2011
• HARD COVER
• 625 PAGES

Eager readers of Massie's Nicholas and Alexandria or the Pulitzer Prize-wining Peter the Great will not be disappointed by this latest, an old-fashioned tale of politics, power and 18th-century Europe, drawing effectively from the ambitious Catherine's own memoirs. (RUS470, $35.00)

Communism, A History

by Richard Pipes

• HISTORY
• 2003
• PAPER
• 192 PAGES

This short, fiercely critical history of communism provides a compelling overview, from the ideas of Karl Marx to the end of the 20th century. (GEN367, $15.00)

Echoes of a Native Land, Two Centuries of a Russian Village

by Serge Schmemann

• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
• 1999
• PAPER
• 350 PAGES

The author draws on his knowledge of Russia, family photographs, letters and memoirs to tell the story of the czarist past and present realities of his ancestral home outside Moscow. (RUS27, $19.00)

Resurrection, The Struggle for a New Russia

by David Remnick

• HISTORY
• 1998
• PAPER
• 352 PAGES

Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick insightfully explores the powers shaping the creation of a new Russia. The book follows the ruin of the USSR, up to the 1996 elections. (RUS23, $16.00)

Russia of the Tsars

by Peter Waldron

• HISTORY
• 2011
• PAPER
• 144 PAGES

Waldron recounts the exploits of Peter the Great and the Tsars and the splendor of their capital city, St. Petersburg, in this lively, well illustrated and compact overview of the largest and most diverse empire of its day. (RUS462, $24.95)

Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia

by W. Bruce Lincoln

• HISTORY
• 2002
• PAPER
• 432 PAGES

A wonderfully written, informative portrait of St. Petersburg, focusing on the city's development in the 18th and 19th centuries as Russia's "window on the West." Highly recommended for travelers with an interest in the character and significance of the city and its monuments. (RUS128, $19.95)

Vodka, A Global History

by Patricia Herlihy

• HISTORY
• 2012
• HARD COVER
• 128 PAGES

Stripped to its essence, vodka is a clear alcohol with neither odor, color or taste. Yet, as Herlihy explains in this thoroughly entertaining overview of the spirit's history, it has become the world's favorite libation. The author explores its origins and growing popularity with particular focus on Russia where it was at different times lauded as a "Medicine for Love" and made the object of scorn by temperance movements. (RUS475, $17.00)

A Russian Journal

by John Steinbeck | Robert Capa

• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
• 1999
• PAPER
• 240 PAGES

Steinbeck's moving account of the people and everyday life in Russia, Ukraine and Caucasus circa 1948, with striking photographs by the great Robert Capra. (RUS275, $15.00)

Peter the Great, His Life and World

by Robert Massie

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 2011
• PAPER
• 914 PAGES

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Massie portrays the giant of history who transformed Russia from backwater tsardom into a major empire. (RUS48, $21.00)

Speak, Memory

by Vladimir Nabokov

• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
• 1989
• PAPER
• 316 PAGES

Nabokov's richly imagined memoir wonderfully evokes cultural life among the well-to-do in turn-of-the-century St. Petersburg. (RUS28, $16.00)

Crime and Punishment

by Fyodor Dostoevsky | David McDuff

• LITERATURE
• 2002
• PAPER
• 647 PAGES

Dostoevsky's thriller of murder and redemption is redolent of St. Petersburg's atmosphere. A cornerstone of Russian literature, and one of the greatest detective stories ever told. (RUS18, $15.00)

Literary Russia, A Guide

by Anna Benn | Rosamund Bartlett

• LITERATURE
• 2006
• HARD COVER
• 528 PAGES

Organized geographically, this guide and literary companion includes the homes, museums and literary landmarks of Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Nabokov and other Russian masters. (RUS45, $37.50)

Russian Short Stories

by Robert Chandler

• LITERATURE
• 2006
• PAPER
• 396 PAGES

This fine collection of tales captures the sweep and soul of Russian literature, including works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy along with lesser-known greats. (RUS288, $18.00)

Russka

by Edward Rutherfurd

• LITERATURE
• 2005
• PAPER
• 946 PAGES

In this absorbing, complex novel Rutherfurd transforms Russian history into an epic saga. The bestseller follows the fate of interconnected families over 800 years. Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, Pushkin and Rasputin all make appearances. (RUS175, $19.00)

The Winter Queen

by Boris Akunin | Andrew Bromfield

• LITERATURE
• 2004
• PAPER
• 249 PAGES

Akunin sets a suspected murder among the glitterati of late 19th-century Moscow in this first book in the series of clever detective novels starring the rascal Erast Fandorin, wildly popular in Russia. The series continues with: The Turkish Gambit (RUS263), set during the 1877 Russo-Turkish War; Murder on the Leviathan (RUS225), an homage to Christie; and The Death of Achilles (RUS291), back in Moscow. Fandorin is deputy to the governor-general of czarist Moscow in Special Assignments (RUS371), facing a serial murder and a swindler. (RUS210, $15.00)

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