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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXRUS70)		  
Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 264 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, $25.00)		   Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg
Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia  •  W. Bruce Lincoln
HISTORY •  2002 •  PAPER  • 432 PAGES
A wonderfully written, informative portrait of the city, discussing its culture, architecture and history. Lincoln focuses on the development of St. Petersburg 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)		   Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia
Peter the Great, His Life and World  •  Robert Massie
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2011 •  PAPER  • 914 PAGES
A Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling history of the great Westernizer of Russia. Massie portrays a giant of history on the monumental canvas of Europe as he transforms Russia from backwater tsardom to major empire. In this massive chronicle, he tells of Peter the Great as he travels incognito to the West, builds Russia's navy, defeats Sweden, moves the capital of the country to the newly created St. Petersburg, and modernizes Russia. (RUS48, $21.00)		   Peter the Great, His Life and World
Land of the Firebird, The Beauty of Old Russia  •  Suzanne Massie
HISTORY •  1995 •  PAPER  • 496 PAGES • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
An engaging illumination of 19th-century Russian cultural life and history by an avowed Russophile. Massie rewards with careful attention to telling details as well as to the larger movements in pre-Revolutionary Russian art, literature, cuisine, and daily life. (RUS21, $35.00)		   Land of the Firebird, The Beauty of Old Russia
St. Petersburg Map  •  Borch Maps
MAP
A detailed, laminated city plan of St. Petersburg at a scale of 1:11,000, with street index inset. Place names are in transliterated English. Two Sides. 20x26 inches. (RUS89, $7.95)		   St. Petersburg Map



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Literary St. Petersburg, A Guide to the City and Its Writers  •  Elaine Blaire   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Blair shows St. Petersburg through the words, museums and haunts of 15 writers, including Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Nabokov. (RUS406, $16.95)
 		  
Black Earth, A Journey Through Russia After the Fall  •  Andrew Meier   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Meier ventures far outside the Kremlin gates for this account of the lives typical Russians since the collapse of the Soviet Union. A vivid, insightful portrait. (RUS236, $16.95)
 		  
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, $17.00)
 		  
Pavlovsk, The Life of a Russian Palace  •  Suzanne Massie   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A biography of the palace from its role in 18th-century Tsarist Russia to the revolution, public park, Nazi military headquarters and restoration. It's a great story, well told by Massie, who also wrote Land of the Firebird. (RUS154, $28.00)
 		  
Petersburg, Crucible of Cultural Revolution  •  Katarina Clark   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A case study of cultural changes in Petersburg in the years 1913-1931 and how they coincided with the Russian Revolution. (RUS43, $30.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
St. Petersburg, A Cultural History  •  Solomon Volkov  •  Antonina Bouis   • HISTORY  •  This intimate cultural history, written by a native historian and musician of the city, includes profiles of its artists and writers over the last 300 years. (RUS72, $38.95)
 		  
The 900 Days, The Siege of Leningrad  •  Harrison Salisbury   • HISTORY  •  Salisbury's detailed account of the three-year-long Nazi blockade of Leningrad (now St Petersburg). (RUS235, $27.00)
 		  
The Most Intentional City, St. Petersburg in the Reign of Catherine the Great  •  George E. Munro   • HISTORY • COMING IN  •  Munro, professor of history and popular study leader, traces the transformation of St. Petersburg from the city as planned by Peter the Great to a thriving European metropolis. (RUS401, $69.50)
 		  
Romanov Riches, Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars  •  Solomon Volkov   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Volkov effortlessly unwinds the twisted relationship between art and the royal family from the rise of the Romanovs in 1613 to their downfall in 1917, including a chapter on Catherine the Great and her era. (RUS473, $30.00)
 		  
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 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)
 		  
The Hermitage Collections  •  Olegs Yakovlevichs Neverov   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This sumputous visual survey celebrates the museum, its history and collections. (RUS471, $95.00)
 		  
The Hermitage, Masterpieces  •  Scala Masterpieces   • ART & ARCHITECTURE • COMING IN  •  This slim book, featuring color illustrations of hundreds of important works, is an excellent guide to European paintings at the Hermitage. (RUS90, $29.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
Speak, Memory  •  Vladimir Nabokov   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Nabokov's richly imagined memoir wonderfully evokes cultural life among the well-to-do in turn-of-the-century St. Petersburg. (RUS28, $16.00)
 		  
Tsar, The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra  •  Peter Kurth  •  Peter Christopher  •  Edvard Radzinsky   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A tribute to the last of the Romanovs, featuring a treasure trove of never-published photographs and illuminating text. It brings to life in sumptuous detail the tumultuous life and times of Nicholas and Alexandra. Masterful. (RUS79, $29.99)
 		  
A Traveller's Companion to St. Petersburg  •  Laurence Kelly   • ANTHOLOGY  •  This illuminating selection of readings, enhanced by maps and and engravings, covers the city from its foundation to the fall of the Tsars. Includes chapters on early days, palaces and museums, politics and iconic places throughout the city. (RUS214, $16.95)
 		  
City of Thieves  •  David Benioff   • LITERATURE  •  David Benioff (screenwriter for The Kite Runner and Wolverine) turns his grandfather's stories of surviving the infamous Siege of Leningrad into a wise and touching novel of coming of age that's hard to put down. Seventeen-year-old Lev and his charismatic buddy Koly are sent out by their German captors to bring back a dozen eggs, just the start of a gripping odyssey. (RUS380, $15.00)
 		  
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, $15.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
Life and Fate  •  Vasily Grossman   • LITERATURE  •  Interweaving a transfixing account of the battle of Stalingrad with the story of a single middle-class family, the Shaposhnikovs, scattered by fortune from Germany to Siberia, Vasily Grossman fashions an immense, intricately detailed tapestry depicting a time of both unimaginable horror and even stranger hope. (RUS299, $24.95)
 		  
Petersburg  •  David McDuff  •  Andrei Bely   • LITERATURE  •  This novel, written in 1916, conjures a whirlwind of impressions and impulses in a kinetic meditation on the nature of the city. (RUS134, $17.00)
 		  
The Madonnas of Leningrad  •  Debra Dean   • LITERATURE  •  Dean effortlessly interweaves two epochs of a woman's life -- Marina's wartime experiences as a young guide at the Hermitage during the siege of Leningrad and her life as an 82-year-old Seattle resident struggling with Alzheimer's. A remarkable debut. (RUS360, $13.99)
 		  
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, $16.00)
 		  
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 • COMING IN  •  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)
 		  
Zugzwang, A Novel  •  Ronan Bennett   • MYSTERY  •  This historical thriller set in 1914 St. Petersburg has it all: an intricate plot, colorful characters, chess masters, Bolsheviks and a famous psychoanalyst. (RUS370, $15.00)
 		  
 
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