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	Odyssey Guide Moscow, St. Petersburg & The Golden Ring  •  Masha Nordbye  •  Patricia Lanza GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 728 PAGES A comprehensive guide to the art, culture and history of these two great Russian cities, filled with maps and fine color photographs. It also includes a 50-page chapter on the ancient cities of the Golden Ring around Moscow. Third edition. (RUS78, $26.95)
	Russia, A Concise History  •  Ronald Hingley HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES A very readable, condensed history of Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to a multi-ethnic empire. Well-known scholar Ronald Hingley summarizes the tragic history of Russia from the invasions of the Tartars, Napoleon and Germans to the collapse of the Soviet Union. He doesn't shy from the abuses of power by autocratic tsars and the totalitarian Communist regime. With 205 well-integrated illustrations and four maps. (RUS04, $19.95)
	Lenin's Tomb  •  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. Highly recommended. (RUS07, $16.95)
	Land of the Firebird, The Beauty of Old Russia  •  Suzanne Massie HISTORY •  1995 •  PAPER  • 496 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE An engaging illumination of 19th-century Russian cultural life and history by an avowed Russophile. Massie rewards with careful attention to telling details as well as to the larger movements in pre-Revolutionary Russian art, literature, cuisine, and daily life. (RUS21, $35.00)
	Russia from St. Petersburg to Moscow Map  •   Falk Maps MAP A detailed map of northwest Russia, from the Baltic, east to just beyond Moscow at a scale of 1:750,000. For those on a river cruise between St. Petersburg and Moscow, this is, by far, the most detailed map. It does, however, omit the northernmost part of the trip (three days) from Goritsy to Svir Story. It does not show the White Lake, the Volga-Baltic Waterway, Lake Onega, Svir River and portions of Lake Lagoda. Published mostly in German. One Side. 38 X 55 inches. (RUS06, $17.95)

	Moscow Map  •   ITMB    •  A handy, folding map of Moscow. (RUS151, $8.95)
	St. Petersburg Map  •   Borch Maps    •  A detailed, laminated city plan of St. Petersburg, with street index inset. Place names are in transliterated English. (RUS89, $7.95)
	Berlitz Russian Phrase Book & Dictionary  •   Berlitz Pocket Guides   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A short introduction to common Russian words and phrases, designed for the traveler. Contains more than 1,000 phrases and more than 2,000 words. (RUS107, $8.95)
	Eyewitness Guide Moscow  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  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  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An outstanding guide to St. Petersburg, its culture, history and attractions. With excellent local maps and site plans. (RUS87, $23.00)
	A Traveller's History of Russia  •  Peter Neville   • HISTORY  •  An impressively compact, lively survey of Russian history from the coming of the Slavs to the collapse of the Soviet Union. (RUS47, $14.95)
	Echoes of a Native Land, Two Centuries of a Russian Village  •  Serge Schmemann   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  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)
	Moscow, A Cultural History  •  Caroline Brooke   • HISTORY  •  Caroline Brooke explores the birth and various stages and reinventions of Moscow, from a twelfth-century fortress to invasion by Napoleon in 1812 to the rise and fall of communism. Part of the Cityscapes series. (RUS292, $24.99)
	Natasha's Dance, A Cultural History of Russia  •  Orlando Figes   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  In this lively cultural history, Figes looks at both the great works by Russian masters and longstanding folk traditions. The title is drawn from a scene of Tolstoy's War and Peace in which a European-educated countess performs a peasant dance. (RUS180, $22.00)
	Resurrection, The Struggle for a New Russia  •  David Remnick   • HISTORY  •  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)
	Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia  •  W. Bruce Lincoln   • HISTORY  •  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)
	St. Petersburg, Architecture of the Tsars  •  Dmitri Shvidkovsky  •  Alexander Orloff   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This definitive book presents Baroque masterpieces of Peter the Great, Neoclassic confections of Catherine the Great and Art Nouveau glitter of Nicholas II in splendid color photographs. (RUS152, $95.00)
	The Art and Architecture of Russia  •  George Hamilton  •  Judith Gordon   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  An elegantly written introduction to the art and architecture of Russia. Published in 1954, it's a good handbook for the traveler that goes beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg. Includes 314 black-and-white illustrations. (RUS38, $35.00)
	The Hermitage, Masterpieces  •   Scala Masterpieces   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This slim book, featuring color illustrations of hundreds of important works, is an excellent guide to European paintings at the Hermitage. (RUS90, $29.95)
	A Russian Journal  •  John Steinbeck  •  Robert Capa   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Steinbeck's moving account of the people and everyday life in Russia, the Ukraine and Cau-casus circa 1948, with striking photographs by the great Robert Capra. (RUS275, $15.00)
	Catherine the Great  •  Henri Troyat   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  One of the world's best biographers paints an unforgettable portrait of Catherine, the monarch of Russia's Enlightenment. (RUS10, $18.00)
	Peter the Great, His Life and World  •  Robert Massie   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  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  •  Vladimir Nabokov   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  First published in 1951, this richly imagined memoir of Nabokov's early years wonderfully evokes cultural life among the well-to-do in turn-of-the-century St. Petersburg. (RUS28, $16.00)
	A Traveller's Companion to St. Petersburg  •  Laurence Kelly   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This illuminating selection of readings, enhanced by maps and and engravings, covers the city from its foundation to the fall of the Tsars. Includes chapters on early days, palaces and museums, politics and iconic places throughout the city. (RUS214, $16.95)
	Anna Karenina  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Larissa Volokhonsky  •  Richa Pevear   • LITERATURE  •  Pevear and Volokhonsky have brilliantly reinvented Tolstoy's epic tale of an adulterous affair between an aristocratic woman and an officer in late 19th Century Russia for a new generation of readers, capturing the rhythms, repetitions and speech of the original Russian. (RUS81, $17.00)
	Crime and Punishment  •  Fyodor Dostoevsky  •  David McDuff   • LITERATURE  •  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, $14.00)
	Russian Short Stories  •  Robert Chandler   • LITERATURE  •  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, $17.00)
	The Cossacks  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Peter Constantine  •  Cynthia Ozick   • LITERATURE  •  A fresh translation of Tolstoy's 1863 semi-autobiographical novel about a young Muscovite and his military adventures in the rough and ready Caucasus. The book is, in part, a portrait of the Cossacks -- and an account of falling in love. (RUS241, $11.95)
	The Siege  •  Helen Dunmore   • LITERATURE  •  The 1941 siege of Leningrad is the backdrop for this affecting novel of one Russian family's attempts to survive during the darkest hours of World War II. (RUS258, $13.00)
	The Winter Queen  •  Boris Akunin  •  Andrew Bromfield   • LITERATURE  •  The first in a series of clever detective novels, wildly popular in Russia, starring the rascal Erast Fandorin. Using lots of period detail, Akunin sets a suspected murder among the glitterati of late 19th-century Moscow. (RUS210, $12.95)
	To the Hermitage  •  Malcolm Bradbury   • LITERATURE  •  Bradbury's spirited, time-spanning novel, involving French philosopher Diderot, Catherine the Great, a 1990s English professor in St. Petersburg and contemporary politics. (RUS153, $16.95)

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