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	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)
	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)
	Peter the Great, His Life and World  •  Robert Massie BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  1981 •  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, $19.95)
	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)
	St. Petersburg Map  •   Borch Maps 2005 •  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. (RUS89, $7.95)

	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, $15.95)
	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, $16.95)
	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, $24.50)
	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, $26.50)
	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)
	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 Amber Room, The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure  •  Adrian Levy  •  Catherine Scott-Clark   • HISTORY  •  Two investigative journalists on the trail of a roomful of amber from the days of Peter the Great, missing since the Siege of Leningrad in 1941. (RUS244, $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)
	St. Petersburg, Architecture of the Tsars  •  Dmitri Shvidkovsky  •  Alexander Orloff   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  Organized chronologically, this definitive book illustrates the 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, $32.00)
	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)
	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)
	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)
	Valse des Fleurs, A Day in St Petersburg in 1868  •  Sacheverell Sitwell   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A celebrated mediation on the court life in the Russian Imperial capital, originally published in 1941. In this extended essay Sitwell conjures snow and gilt, courtiers, music and pageantry, a military parade, sledges, sables, and Cossacks during the reign of Alexander II. (RUS209, $22.95)
	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)
	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)
	City of Thieves  •  David Benioff   • LITERATURE  •  Benioff turns his grandfather's stories of surviving the infamous Siege of Leningrad into a wise and touching novel of coming of age. (RUS380, $24.95)
	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)
	Life and Fate  •  Vasily Grossman   • LITERATURE  •  Modeled on Tolstoy's War and Peace, this novel gives a sweeping account of Soviet life during World War II. (RUS299, $22.95)
	Petersburg  •  Andrei Bely  •  John E. Malmstad  •  Robert A. Maguire   • LITERATURE  •  This novel, written in 1916, conjures a whirlwind of impressions and impulses in a kinetic meditation on the nature of the city. (RUS134, $19.95)
	The Madonnas of Leningrad  •  Debra Dean   • LITERATURE  •  Dean effortlessly interweaves two stories in this remarkable debut -- Marina's wartime experiences as a young guide at the Hermitage during the seige of Leningrad and the her life as an 82-year old Seattle resident struggling with Alzheimer's. (RUS360, $13.95)
	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)
	Zugzwang, A Novel  •  Ronan Bennett   • MYSTERY  •  This historical thriller set in 1914 St. Petersburg has got it all: an intricate plot, colorful characters, chess masters, Bolsheviks and a famous psychoanalyst. (RUS370, $24.95)

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