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	Odyssey Guide Moscow, St. Petersburg & The Golden Ring  •  Masha Nordbye  •  Patricia Lanza GUIDEBOOK •  2007 •  PAPER  • 728 PAGES A comprehensive guide to the art, culture and history of these two great Russian cities, filled with maps and fine color photographs. It also includes a 50-page chapter on the ancient cities of the Golden Ring around Moscow. Third edition. (RUS78, $26.95)
	Russia, A Concise History  •  Ronald Hingley HISTORY •  2003 •  PAPER  • 224 PAGES A very readable, condensed history of Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to a multi-ethnic empire. Well-known scholar Ronald Hingley summarizes the tragic history of Russia from the invasions of the Tartars, Napoleon and Germans to the collapse of the Soviet Union. He doesn't shy from the abuses of power by autocratic tsars and the totalitarian Communist regime. With 205 well-integrated illustrations and four maps. (RUS04, $19.95)
	Lenin's Tomb  •  David Remnick HISTORY •  1994 •  PAPER  • 588 PAGES 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. Highly recommended. (RUS07, $16.95)
	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)

	Russia's Heritage Cities  •   International Travel Maps    •  A map of the Golden Ring cities surrounding Moscow, at a scale of 1:500,000. (RUS217, $8.95)
	Culture Smart! Russia  •  Anna King   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (RUS361, $9.95)
	Eyewitness Guide Moscow  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This outstanding guide covers Moscow's culture, history and attractions with maps, site plans and hundreds of color photographs. (RUS164, $23.00)
	Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg  •   Eyewitness Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An outstanding guide to St. Petersburg, its culture, history and attractions. With excellent local maps and site plans. (RUS87, $23.00)
	A Traveller's History of Russia  •  Peter Neville   • HISTORY  •  An impressively compact, lively survey of Russian history from the coming of the Slavs to the collapse of the Soviet Union. (RUS47, $14.95)
	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)
	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, $22.00)
	Russia, Beyond Utopia  •  Andrew Moore   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  A portrait of modern Russia, this visually stunning book captures both the decaying grandeur of its past and frenetic pace of change since 2000. (RUS346, $40.00)
	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 Most Intentional City, St. Petersburg in the Reign of Catherine the Great  •  George E. Munro   • HISTORY  •  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)
	The Oligarchs, Wealth & Power in the New Russia  •  David Hoffman   • HISTORY  •  A scrupulously documented, fascinating account of six businessmen whose profiteering amid the near-anarchy and corruption that followed collapse of the Soviet Union skyrocketed them to positions of immense power in the New Russia. (RUS159, $21.95)
	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)
	Catherine the Great  •  Henri Troyat   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  One of the world's best biographers paints an unforgettable portrait of Catherine, the monarch of Russia's Enlightenment. (RUS10, $18.00)
	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)
	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)
	Anna Karenina  •  Leo Tolstoy  •  Larissa Volokhonsky  •  Richa Pevear   • LITERATURE  •  Pevear and Volokhonsky have brilliantly reinvented Tolstoy's epic tale of an adulterous affair between an aristocratic woman and an officer in late 19th Century Russia for a new generation of readers, capturing the rhythms, repetitions and speech of the original Russian. (RUS81, $17.00)
	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)
	Russian Short Stories  •  Robert Chandler   • LITERATURE  •  This fine collection of tales captures the sweep and soul of Russian literature, including works by Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy along with lesser-known greats. (RUS288, $17.00)
	The Winter Queen  •  Boris Akunin  •  Andrew Bromfield   • LITERATURE  •  The first in a series of clever detective novels, wildly popular in Russia, starring the rascal Erast Fandorin. Using lots of period detail, Akunin sets a suspected murder among the glitterati of late 19th-century Moscow. (RUS210, $12.95)
	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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