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St. Petersburg & Baltics   |   READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE

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Bradt Guide Baltic Cities  •  Neil Taylor
GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 298 PAGES
A compact, practical guide to exploring Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Kaliningrad and surrounding regions. With excursions, walking tours and suggestions for where to eat and sleep. (BLT12, $25.99)
  Bradt Guide Baltic Cities
Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg  •   Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 256 PAGES
An outstanding guide to St. Petersburg, its culture, history and attractions. This compact travel guide features excellent local maps and site plans, hundreds of color photographs and a good selection of writing on St. Petersburg over the ages. (RUS87, $23.00)
  Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg
Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights, The Stone Castles of Latvia and Estonia  •  Stephen Turnbull
HISTORY •  2004 •  PAPER  • 64 PAGES
This heavily illustrated book shows the history, design and life of the crusader castles of the Livonian Order in what is now Estonia and Latvia. It's the second volume in a history of the military fortresses and castles of the Teutonic Knights, covering 1185-1560. With diagrams, maps and pictures, including photographs of how the castles look today. (BLT19, $18.95)
  Crusader Castles of the Teutonic Knights, The Stone Castles of Latvia and Estonia
Northern Europe Map  •   Freytag & Berndt
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A colorful shaded relief map of Scandinavia and the Baltic States at a scale of 1:2,000,000. It shows the entire Baltic Sea region. One Side. 42x34 inches. (EUR19, $12.95)
  Northern Europe Map
 

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Baltic States Map  •   Freytag & Berndt    •  A double-sided detailed map of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at a scale of 1:400,000. (BLT06, $14.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
Footprint Tallinn  •  Clare Thomson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Nuts-and-bolts information, plus an overview of history and culture, geared for the independent traveler. (BLT27, $12.95)
 
 
Lonely Planet Baltic Phrasebook  •  Paul Jokubaitis  •  Jana Teteris  •  Lisa Trei   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  Learn the basics of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian with this handy guide. (BLT10, $8.99)
 
 
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)
 
 
Lenin's Tomb  •  David Remnick   • HISTORY  •  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, $16.95)
 
 
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)
 
 
St. Petersburg, Russia's Window to the Future  •  Arthur George   • HISTORY  •  A history of the city, and especially its cultural life, published in celebration of its 300th anniversary. (RUS248, $35.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
The Baltic Revolution  •  Anatol Lieven   • HISTORY  •  A Latvian correspondent for the London Times, Lieven weaves history, interviews and analysis into a vivid cultural portrait of post-Glasnost Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (BLT02, $32.50)
 
 
The Baltic, A New History of the Region and its People  •  Alan Palmer   • HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT  •  The prolific British historian covers the history of the region from the Viking era to modern day. A vivid, sweeping chronicle with its share of entertaining anecdote. (BLT22, $19.95)
 
 
The Latvians, A Short History  •  Andrejs Plakans   • HISTORY • OUT OF PRINT  •  A scholarly history of Latvia beginning in medieval times, which concentrates on the growth of Latvian nationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries. (BLT08, $24.95)
 
 
The Northern Crusades  •  Eric Christiansen   • HISTORY  •  The story of the conquest and conversion of the pagan tribes of the Baltic Coasts by the crusading knights of the Teutonic Order from the 13th to the 15th centuries. (BLT14, $17.00)
 
 
The Treasures of Hermitage  •   Museums of the World   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  The six-part documentary showcasing the Hermitage Museum and its magnificent collection of European art. (RUS238, $49.99)
 
 
Cathedrals and Castles, Building in the Middle Ages  •  Alain Erlande-Brandenburg   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  This pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages features hundreds of drawings, color illustrations and a brief chronology. (MED07, $12.95)
 
 
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 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 Woman in Amber  •  Agate Nesaule   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  In this American Book Award-winning memoir, Nesaule recounts the horrors she witnessed and experienced as a young girl during World War II in Latvia. A gripping testimony of survival. (RUS30, $16.00)
 
 
Among the Russians  •  Colin Thubron   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The marvelous account of a 10,000-mile journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia in 1981. A gifted writer and intrepid traveler, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity in this lyrical book. (RUS106, $14.00)
 
 
Catherine the Great, A Short History  •  Isabel De Madariaga   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A brief survey of the reign of Catherine the Great that nicely balances biography with descriptions of the economic, political and social life of the period. (RUS105, $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)
 
 
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)
 
 
The Avengers, A Jewish War Story  •  Rich Cohen   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  The riveting tale of three kids from the Jewish ghetto, who went from the streets of Vilna to fighting the Germans and eventually wound up in a Kibbutz north of Tel Aviv. (BLT16, $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, $22.95)
 
 
Coup de Grace  •  Marguerite Yourcenar   • LITERATURE  •  A novel set against the backdrop of the Latvian War of Independence in the aftermath of WWI. (BLT26, $16.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
The Christening  •  Denise Neuhaus   • LITERATURE  •  This accomplished novel, set against a backdrop of the last says of the Soviet Union, follows three Estonian women in Tallinn and Stockholm. (BLT25, $16.95)
 
 
The Dogs of Riga  •  Henning Mankell   • MYSTERY  •  In this installment of Mankell's Kurt Wallender crime series, the Swedish detective travels to Latvia on the shadowy trail of a grisly murder. A gripping read, steeped in Baltic ambiance. (BLT24, $14.95)
 
 
The Master of Petersburg  •  J.M. Coetzee   • LITERATURE  •  Dostoyevski becomes a literary character in Coetzee's novel of 19th-century Russia, where he is ensnared in a mystery that illuminates the underworld of pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg. (RUS200, $15.00)
 
 
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)
 
 
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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