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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXRUS97)		  
Eyewitness Guide Moscow  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 263 PAGES
An outstanding guide to Moscow, its culture, history and attractions, with excellent local maps, site plans and hundreds of color photographs. It includes a select, annotated listing of recommended hotels, restaurants, cafes and shops. (RUS164, $23.00)		   Eyewitness Guide Moscow
Moscow, A Cultural History  •  Caroline Brooke
HISTORY •  2007 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
Caroline Brooke explores the birth and various 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)		   Moscow, A Cultural History
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, $17.00)		   Lenin's Tomb
Moscow Map  •  ITMB
MAP
A folded map of Moscow and surrounding neighborhoods at the broad scale of 1:50,000, and featuring a detailed map of the city center at 1:12,500. Two Sides. 38x26 inches. (RUS151, $8.95)		   Moscow Map



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Russia's Heritage Cities  •  International Travel Maps    •  A map of the Golden Ring cities surrounding Moscow, at a scale of 1:500,000. (RUS217, $8.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Frommer's Moscow Day by Day  •  Frommer's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food to hotels, neighborhoods and shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center. (RUS420, $12.99)
 		  
Insight City Guide Moscow  •  Bri Bell   • GUIDEBOOK  •  With hundreds of color photographs, chapters on architecture, art and and food and wine, travel tips and a removable Restaurant Guide. (RUS386, $16.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Land of the Firebird, The Beauty of Old Russia  •  Suzanne Massie   • HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  Massie traces both miniscule 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)
 		  
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, $23.00)
 		  
Russia, A Concise History  •  Ronald Hingley   • HISTORY  •  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)
 		  
Ten Days That Shook the World  •  John Reed   • HISTORY  •  An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution by an American journalist, a political classic that captures the spirit of those heady days of excitement and idealism before disillusion and cynicism set in. (RUS13, $13.00)
 		  
The Oligarchs, Wealth & Power in the New Russia  •  David Hoffman   • HISTORY  •  A scrupulously documented, fascinating account of six businessmen whose profiteering amid the near-anarchy and corruption that followed collapse of the Soviet Union skyrocketed them to positions of immense power in the New Russia. (RUS159, $21.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana  •  Stephanie Elizondo Griest   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The offbeat memoirs of a Texan who spent four years as a volunteer in Moscow, a propaganda officer in Beijing, and a belly dancer in Havana. (RUS242, $14.95)
 		  
Letters from Russia  •  Marquis De Custine  •  Anka Muhlstein   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An authoritative edition of Astolphe de Custine's observant, scathing and insightful account of travels in Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1839. (RUS166, $24.95)
 		  
Molotov's Magic Lantern, Travels in Russian History  •  Rachel Polonsky   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Polonsky interweaves her vast knowledge of Russia and the Russian people with a digressive literary tour of Moscow, inspired by the works she found in the forgotten library of Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's most loyal henchman. (RUS449, $28.00)
 		  
Russian Journal  •  Andrea Lee   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  An unforgettable, straight-forward account of day-to-day life in Soviet Leningrad and Moscow, originally published in 1981. (RUS307, $14.95)
 		  
Death of a Dissident  •  Stuart Kaminsky   • MYSTERY  •  When a world-famous dissident is murdered -- an act that has embarrassing political overtones for the Soviet government -- the KGB is willing to frame anyone for his murder, and Moscow Police Inspector Rostnikov races to find the real killer. (RUS365, $14.95)
 		  
From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories  •  Carl Proffer   • ANTHOLOGY  •  A broad selection of Russian literary works from the earliest prose to the years before the revolution, featuring reliable translations of masterpieces from Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gogol, and more. (RUS08, $24.00)
 		  
The First Circle  •  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  •  Thomas Whitney   • LITERATURE  •  A powerful novel of the horrors of Soviet Russia set in Moscow in 1949. It won Solzhenitsyn the Nobel Proze for Literature in 1970. (RUS260, $16.95)
 		  
The Winter Queen  •  Boris Akunin  •  Andrew Bromfield   • LITERATURE  •  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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