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Eyewitness Guide Moscow •   Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • 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)

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, $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)

Moscow Map •   ITMB
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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. (RUS151, $8.95)

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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)

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 pays careful attention to telling details as well as to the larger movements in pre-Revolutionary Russian art, literature and daily life in this rewarding, 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, $20.00)

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, $12.00)

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, $32.00)

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, $22.95)

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)

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, $21.95)

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)

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 • 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)

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	Eyewitness Guide Moscow • Eyewitness Guides GUIDEBOOK • 2007 • 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)
	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, $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)
	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. (RUS151, $8.95)

	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)
	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 pays careful attention to telling details as well as to the larger movements in pre-Revolutionary Russian art, literature and daily life in this rewarding, 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, $20.00)
	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, $12.00)
	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, $32.00)
	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, $22.95)
	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)
	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, $21.95)
	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)
	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 • 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)