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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)

Moscow, A Cultural History

by Caroline Brooke

HISTORY
2007
PAPER
256 PAGES

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)

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)

Moscow Map

by ITMB

A handy, folding map of Moscow. (RUS151, $8.95)

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Russia's Heritage Cities

by International Travel Maps

2002
MAP

A map of the Golden Ring cities surrounding Moscow, at a scale of 1:500,000. (RUS217, $8.95)

Berlitz Russian Phrase Book & Dictionary

by Berlitz Pocket Guides

LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
2008
PAPER
224 PAGES

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

by Frommer's

GUIDEBOOK
2009
PAPER
184 PAGES

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

by Bri Bell

GUIDEBOOK
2006
PAPER
256 PAGES

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

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)

Land of the Firebird, The Beauty of Old Russia

by Suzanne Massie

HISTORY
1995
PAPER
496 PAGES
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

by Orlando Figes

CULTURAL PORTRAIT
2003
PAPER
768 PAGES

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

by Ronald Hingley

HISTORY
2003
PAPER
224 PAGES

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

by John Reed

HISTORY
2007
PAPER
368 PAGES

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

by David Hoffman

HISTORY
2004
PAPER
567 PAGES

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

by George Hamilton | Judith Gordon

ART & ARCHITECTURE
1992
PAPER
482 PAGES

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

by Stephanie Elizondo Griest

BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
2004
PAPER
416 PAGES

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

by Marquis De Custine | Anka Muhlstein

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2002
PAPER
654 PAGES

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

by Rachel Polonsky

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2011
HARD COVER

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

by Andrea Lee

TRAVEL NARRATIVE
2006
PAPER
256 PAGES

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

by Stuart Kaminsky

MYSTERY
2005
PAPER
220 PAGES

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

by Carl Proffer

ANTHOLOGY
1969
PAPER
468 PAGES

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

by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | Thomas Whitney

LITERATURE
1997
PAPER
580 PAGES

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

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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