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U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXRUS70)		  
Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg  •  Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •  2010 •  PAPER  • 264 PAGES • BEST SELLER
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



Also Recommended

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)
 		  
Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook  •  James Jenkin  •  Inna Zaitseva   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy shirtpocket phrasebook for Russian basics focusing on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (RUS111, $8.99)
 		  
Catherine the Great  •  Robert K. Massie   • HISTORY  •  Eager readers of Massie's Nicholas and Alexandria or the Pulitzer Prize-wining Peter the Great will not be disappointed by this latest, an old-fashioned tale of politics, power and 18th-century Europe, drawing effectively from the ambitious Catherine's own memoirs. (RUS470, $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, $17.00)
 		  
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, $23.00)
 		  
Russia of the Tsars  •  Peter Waldron   • HISTORY  •  Waldron recounts the exploits of Peter the Great and the Tsars and the splendor of their capital city, St. Petersburg, in this lively, well illustrated and compact overview of the largest and most diverse empire of its day. (RUS462, $24.95)
 		  
Russia, A Concise History  •  Ronald Hingley   • HISTORY • BEST SELLER  •  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)
 		  
Vodka, A Global History  •  Patricia Herlihy   • HISTORY  •  Stripped to its essence, vodka is a clear alcohol with neither odor, color or taste. Yet, as Herlihy explains in this thoroughly entertaining overview of the spirit's history, it has become the world's favorite libation. The author explores its origins and growing popularity with particular focus on Russia where it was at different times lauded as a "Medicine for Love" and made the object of scorn by temperance movements. (RUS475, $17.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
The Hermitage Collections  •  Olegs Yakovlevichs Neverov   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This sumputous visual survey celebrates the museum, its history and collections. (RUS471, $95.00)
 		  
The Hermitage: A Journey in Time and Space  •  Kultur Video   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  This 116 minute documentary, directed Vladimir Ptashchenko and accompanied by orchestral music, showcases the extraordinary collections, Originally established as the private collection of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great. (RUS472, $24.99)
 		  
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)
 		  
Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar  •  Simon Sebag Montefiore   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  An enthralling, comprehensive portrait of Joseph Stalin and his court, drawing on archival material and interviews with surviving figures. At 800 pages, there is ample room for personal and anecdotal information about Stalin. (RUS228, $19.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
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)
 		  
 
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