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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)
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)
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)
Northern Europe Map
Freytag & Berndt
MAP
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, $11.95)
Baltic States Map
Freytag & Berndt
A double-sided detailed map of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, at a scale of 1:400,000.
(BLT06, $12.95)
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, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independence
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 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, $16.00)
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
A pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Middle Ages featuring hundreds of drawings and 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, $22.95)
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
A richly imagined memoir of Nabokov's early years. First published in 1951, it wonderfully evokes cultural life among the well-to-do in turn-of-the-century St. Petersburg.
(RUS28, $14.95)
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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