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These 4 items are available for $90, including U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXRUS34)

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)

Moscow Map  •  Insight Maps   • COMING IN  •  A laminated map of the city center of Moscow at a scale of 1:13,500. (RUS239, $8.95)
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)
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)
Berlitz Russian Phrase Book & Dictionary  •  Berlitz Pocket Guides   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A short introduction to common Russian words and phrases, designed for the traveler. Contains more than 1,000 phrases and more than 2,000 words. (RUS107, $8.95)
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  •  A compact visual guide with excellent local maps and site plans. (RUS87, $23.00)
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)
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 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)
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 to major empire. (RUS48, $19.95)
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)
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)
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)
Doctor Zhivago  •  Boris Pasternak  •  Max Hayward  •  Manya Harari   • LITERATURE  •  The epic novel of life and love set against the backdrop of the first half of the 20th century in Russia. (RUS222, $15.95)
Russian Short Stories  •  Robert Chandler   • LITERATURE • NEW  •  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)