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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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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Russia from St. Petersburg to Moscow Map
Falk Maps
MAP
A detailed map of northwest Russia, from the Baltic, east to just beyond Moscow at a scale of 1:750,000. For those on a river cruise between St. Petersburg and Moscow, this is, by far, the most detailed map. It does, however, omit the northernmost part of the trip (three days) from Goritsy to Svir Story. It does not show the White Lake, the Volga-Baltic Waterway, Lake Onega, Svir River and portions of Lake Lagoda. Published mostly in German.
(RUS06, $14.95) |
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Moscow Map
ITMB
An handy, folding map of Moscow.
(RUS151, $8.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Echoes of a Native Land, Two Centuries of a Russian Village
Serge Schmemann
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
The author draws on his knowledge of Russia, family photographs, letters and memoirs to tell the story of the czarist past and present realities of his ancestral home outside Moscow.
(RUS27, $19.00) |
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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, $20.00) |
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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) |
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Ten Days That Shook the World
John Reed
HISTORY
An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution by an American journalist, a political classic that captures the spirit of those heady days of excitement and idealism before disillusion and cynicism set in.
(RUS13, $12.00) |
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St. Petersburg, Architecture of the Tsars
Dmitri Shvidkovsky
Alexander Orloff
ART & ARCHITECTURE
Organized chronologically, this definitive book illustrates the 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) |
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The Art and Architecture of Russia
George Hamilton
Judith Gordon
ART & ARCHITECTURE
An elegantly written introduction to the art and architecture of Russia. Published in 1954, it's a good handbook for the traveler that goes beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg. Includes 314 black-and-white illustrations.
(RUS38, $32.00) |
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The Hermitage, Materpieces
Scala Masterpieces
ART & ARCHITECTURE
This slim book, featuring color illustrations on hundreds of important works, is an excellent guide to European paintings at the Hermitage.
(RUS90, $29.95) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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, $16.00) |
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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) |
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Russian Short Stories
Robert Chandler
LITERATURE
NEW
This fine collection of tales captures the sweep and soul of Russian literature, including Pushkin, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov and Tolstoy along with lesser-known greats.
(RUS288, $17.00) |
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The Siege
Helen Dunmore
LITERATURE
The 1941 siege of Leningrad is the backdrop for this affecting novel of one Russian family's attempts to survive during the darkest hours of World War II.
(RUS258, $13.00) |
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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) |
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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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