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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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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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Catherine the Great, A Short History
• Isabel De Madariaga
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2002 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
A brief, balanced biography of Catherine the Great, covering her life, influence and times. Written by a noted scholar of Russian history, the book offers an excellent overview of the political and social climate of 18th-century Russia. De Madariaga begins the book with a short, vigorous chapter: Catherine seizes power. The woman who ruled from 1762 until her death in 1796 had no claim to the throne. For serious students, Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great, also by De Madariaga, offers more detail. A Yale Note Bene paperback.
(RUS105, $14.95) |
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The Darkening Field
• William Ryan
MYSTERY •
2012 •
HARD COVER
• 322 PAGES
It is 1937, and Captain Korolev ofMoscow's Criminal Investigation Division finds himself on an airplane bound for Odessa after the suspicious suicide of Maria Alexandrovna Lenskaya, a loyal young party member who supposedly had an illicit intimate relationship with the party director.
(BLK166, $24.99) |
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Doctor Zhivago
• Boris Pasternak
• Richard Pevear
• Larissa Volokhonsky
LITERATURE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 544 PAGES
This epic story of life and love -- set against the backdrop of the first half of the 20th century -- takes in both World Wars and the Revolution. Banned in Russia upon publication in the 1950s, it was later made into the classic film by David Lean.
(RUS222, $16.95) |
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Dreams of My Russian Summers
• Andrei Makine
LITERATURE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
In this widely praised first novel, Makine writes evocatively of the coming of age of a young boy in the Soviet Union of the 1960's and 70's.
(RUS266, $14.95) |
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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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Galina, A Russian Story
• Galina Vishnevskaya
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1985 •
PAPER
• 568 PAGES
Born in St. Petersburg, the great Soprano (and wife of Mstislav Rostropovich) recounts her extraordinary life in this bestseller (turned into an opera in 1996).
(RUS312, $26.00) |
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Frommer's Moscow Day by Day
• Frommer's
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 184 PAGES
A compact shirt pocket guide, ideal for a short visit, featuring remarkably good suggestions for everything from food to hotels, neighborhoods and shopping. With a separate foldout map of the city center.
(RUS420, $12.99) |
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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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A Russian Journal
• John Steinbeck
• Robert Capa
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
During the Cold War, amidst an abundance of paranoia, Steinbeck and Capa decided to gather un-propagandized information on the Russian way of life by traveling to the other side of the Iron Curtain. This is the result of their reporting project, an honest account of the people and everyday life, with striking photographs by the great Robert Capa.
(RUS275, $15.00) |
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Ten Days That Shook the World
• John Reed
HISTORY •
2007 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
An eyewitness account of the greatest revolution of the 20th century. This political classic captures the spirit of those heady days of excitement and idealism before disillusion and cynicism set in. Reed, an American journalist, became a hero of the revolution himself and was buried under the Kremlin wall.
(RUS13, $13.00) |
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A Traveller's Companion To Moscow
• Laur Kelly
ANTHOLOGY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 321 PAGES
A splendid introduction to the city.
(RUS294, $16.95) |
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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) |
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Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana
• Stephanie Elizondo Griest
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2004 •
PAPER
• 416 PAGES
The offbeat memoirs of a native Texan who spent four years as a volunteer in Moscow, a propaganda officer in Beijing, and a belly dancer in Havana. You may have come across Griest's distinctive voice in a collection of Travelers' Tales, where she is a regular contributor. She's young, a witty observer with a way with words, and utterly passionate about travel. This is her first book, as much memoir as travel account, spanning four years and three continents.
(RUS242, $14.95) |
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The Oligarchs, Wealth & Power in the New Russia
• David Hoffman
HISTORY •
2004 •
PAPER
• 567 PAGES
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. Written by the acclaimed former Moscow bureau chief for the Washington Post, it's an engrossing tale of capitalism born from chaos.
(RUS159, $21.95) |
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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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Molotov's Magic Lantern, Travels in Russian History
• Rachel Polonsky
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2011 •
HARD COVER
British Journalist Rachel Polonsky interweaves her vast knowledge of Russia and the Russian people with a digressive literary tour of Moscow, inspired by the works she found in the forgotten library of Vyacheslav Molotov, Stalin's most loyal henchman. Dolman Travel Book of the Year 2011.
(RUS449, $28.00) |
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Russian Journal
• Andrea Lee
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
An unforgettable, straight-forward account of day-to-day life in Soviet Leningrad and Moscow, originally published in 1981, interweaving the young Lee's observations and interviews. Lee accompanied her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, on a 10-month stint in Russia.
(RUS307, $14.95) |
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