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Anna Karenina
• Leo Tolstoy
• Larissa Volokhonsky
• Richa Pevear
LITERATURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 838 PAGES
Tolstoy's tragic love story of the beautiful, but married Anna, and her passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. An adulterous relationship in late 19th Century Russia is not without its harsh consequences -- Anna loses her family and is ostracized by those around her in a social downfall. Interwoven with the story of Konstantin Levin and Princess Kitty Shcerbatsky, this epic work is a timeless novel of desire, weakness, and the search for love.
(RUS81, $17.00) |
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The Art and Architecture of Russia
• George Hamilton
• Judith Gordon
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1992 •
PAPER
• 482 PAGES
An informed, engaging and comprehensive history of the art and architecture of Western Russia from the beginnings of Kievan Rus through the revolution and Russian empire, first published in 1954. It includes a splendid discussion of the development of St. Petersburg in the 18th and 19th centuries. Organized largely by geography, it's a good handbook for the traveler that goes beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg to include Kiev, Novgorod, Pskov and Vladimir-Suzdal. With 314 black-and-white illustrations.
(RUS38, $35.00) |
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The Cossacks
• Leo Tolstoy
• Peter Constantine
• Cynthia Ozick
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
A fresh translation of Tolstoy's 1863 semi-autobiographical novel about a young Muscovite and his military adventures in the rough-and-ready Caucasus. The book is, in part, a portrait of the Cossacks -- and an account of falling in love.
(RUS241, $13.00) |
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From Karamzin to Bunin: An Anthology of Russian Short Stories
• Carl Proffer
ANTHOLOGY •
1969 •
PAPER
• 468 PAGES
This anthology stands out by including a broad selection of literary masterpieces from the earliest Russian prose to the years before the revolution, the best short works by each of the authors, and reliable translations of such masterpieces as Pushkin's "The Queen of Spades," Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilych," Gogol's "The Overcoat," and several of Chekhov's best-loved stories.
(RUS08, $24.00) |
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Letters from Russia
• Marquis De Custine
• Anka Muhlstein
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 654 PAGES
An authoritative edition of Astolphe de Custine's scathing, insightful -- and observant -- account of the people, culture and politics of St. Petersburg and Moscow circa 1839. George Kennan called this book the best thing ever written about Russia, no doubt in part because of de Custine's trenchant observations on Russian despotism (the Soviets also banned the book). This is the 1843 translation, edited, revised and with an introduction by de Custine's biographer, Anka Muhlstein.
(RUS166, $24.95) |
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Moscow, A Cultural History
• Caroline Brooke
HISTORY •
2007 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
Caroline Brooke explores the birth and various reinventions of Moscow, from a twelfth-century fortress to invasion by Napoleon in 1812 to the rise and fall of communism. Part of the Cityscapes series.
(RUS292, $24.99) |
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Natasha's Dance, A Cultural History of Russia
• Orlando Figes
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2003 •
PAPER
• 768 PAGES
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 and the monumental work is dedicated to this tension between Asia and Europe, peasants and nobility.
(RUS180, $23.00) |
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A Traveller's Companion to St. Petersburg
• Laurence Kelly
ANTHOLOGY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 285 PAGES
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) |
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Catherine the Great
• Henri Troyat
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1994 •
PAPER
• 377 PAGES
One of the world's most notable biographers creates a grand portrait of a great monarch. This Russian-born French biographer of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Turgenev, Pushkin, Dostoevsky, and Gogol weaves a rich tapestry of history that reads like a novel. Seizing power from her husband and second cousin Peter III, Catherine fights and beats the Turks, defeats rebellion, partitions Poland, raises the prestige of Russia in Europe by corresponding with French philosophers and buying western art, and brings vast new lands under her 34-year reign.
(RUS10, $20.00) |
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