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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $106, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXRUS07)		  
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)		   Odyssey Guide Moscow, St. Petersburg & The Golden Ring
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)		   Russia, A Concise History
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, $17.00)		   Lenin's Tomb
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)		   Land of the Firebird, The Beauty of Old Russia
Russia from St. Petersburg to Moscow Map  •  Falk Maps
2009 •  MAP
A detailed map of northwest Russia at a scale of 1:750,000, well-suited for a river cruise between St. Petersburg and Moscow. It covers all but the northernmost extent of the route. A multi-lingual map, place names are in Russian. 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. One Side. 38 X 55 inches. (RUS06, $17.95)		   Russia from St. Petersburg to Moscow Map



Also Recommended

Moscow Map  •  ITMB    •  A handy, folding map of Moscow. (RUS151, $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)
 		  
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  •  With excellent local maps and site plans, this outstanding visual guide introduces the culture, history and attractions of St. Petersburg. (RUS87, $25.00)
 		  
Frommer's Moscow & St. Petersburg  •  Frommer's   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide with recommendations for sightseeing, restaurants, shopping and excursions. Detailed maps throughout. (RUS421, $19.99)
 		  
Insight Guide Russia, Belarus & Ukraine  •  Anna Benn   • GUIDEBOOK  •  An engaging guide to the country and its major regions and cities with short, handsomely illustrated essays on Russian history, life, art, literature and music. The guide includes excellent full-color maps and hundreds of photographs. (RUS37, $22.95)
 		  
Knopf Mapguide Moscow  •  Knopf Guides   • GUIDEBOOK  •  Full-color foldout maps make this guidebook a handy and practical way to find information on where to go and what to do in the city. (RUS270, $10.95)
 		  
Lonely Planet Russian Phrasebook  •  James Jenkin  •  Inna Zaitseva   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  A handy shirtpocket phrasebook for Russian basics focusing on pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary for the traveler. (RUS111, $8.99)
 		  
Russian, A Language Map  •  Kristine K. Kershul   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers. (RUS276, $7.95)
 		  
A History of Modern Russia  •  Robert Service   • HISTORY  •  This lively history covers one hundred years of the triumphs, upheavals and tyrannies of Russia from the earliest days of the revolution to the society and politics of the 21st-century. (RUS334, $26.50)
 		  
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)
 		  
Getting Russia Right  •  Dmitri V. Trenin   • HISTORY  •  The Deputy director of the Carnegie Moscow Center sketches developments in Russia's economy, culture and relations with the U.S. and Europe in this brief primer published by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (RUS446, $19.95)
 		  
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, $23.00)
 		  
Petrostate, Putin, Power, and the New Russia  •  Marshall I. Goldman   • HISTORY  •  Incorporating extensive research and interviews with Putin and narrated with panache, this is the story of Russia's re-emergence from the post-Soviet ashes and its evolution into a gas and oil-based economic powerhouse. (RUS366, $16.95)
 		  
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)
 		  
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, $13.00)
 		  
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)
 		  
The Routledge Atlas of Russian History  •  Martin Gilbert   • HISTORY  •  A fantastically interesting, useful survey of the history of Russia in maps. This revised edition follows the fate of Russia since the demise of the Soviet Union, with 161 maps covering rebellion, famine, expansion, trade, the military, communism's collapse and myriad other topics. (RUS176, $29.95)
 		  
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 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, $35.00)
 		  
Among the Russians  •  Colin Thubron   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  The marvelous account of a 10,000-mile journey by car from St. Petersburg and the Baltic States south to Georgia and Armenia in 1981. A gifted writer and intrepid traveler, Thubron grapples with the complexities of Russian identity in this lyrical book. (RUS106, $14.00)
 		  
Catherine the Great, A Short History  •  Isabel De Madariaga   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A brief survey of the reign of Catherine the Great that nicely balances biography with descriptions of the economic, political and social life of the period. (RUS105, $14.95)
 		  
Lost and Found in Russia, Lives in the Post-Soviet Landscape  •  Susan Richards   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Richards travels beyond Moscow and St. Petersburg to the mountains and steppes of the Volga and Siberia for this portrait of a society in transition. (RUS448, $15.95)
 		  
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  •  Nabokov's richly imagined memoir 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)
 		  
Tsar, The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra  •  Peter Kurth  •  Peter Christopher  •  Edvard Radzinsky   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  A tribute to the last of the Romanovs, featuring a treasure trove of never-published photographs and illuminating text. It brings to life in sumptuous detail the tumultuous life and times of Nicholas and Alexandra. Masterful. (RUS79, $29.99)
 		  
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, $15.00)
 		  
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, $18.00)
 		  
Russka  •  Edward Rutherfurd   • LITERATURE  •  In this absorbing, complex novel Rutherfurd transforms Russian history into an epic saga. The bestseller follows the fate of interconnected families over 800 years. Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, Pushkin and Rasputin all make appearances. (RUS175, $19.00)
 		  
The Master and Margarita  •  Larissa Volokhonsky  •  Richa Pevear  •  Mikhail Bulgakov   • LITERATURE  •  Pevear and Volokhonsky's incisive new translation of Bulgakov's satiric masterpiece -- part fairytale, part fable and part slapstick -- set in someplace like Moscow and written in the 1930s during the height of Stalin's reign. (RUS44, $14.00)
 		  
The Turkish Gambit  •  Andrew Bromfield  •  Boris Akunin   • MYSTERY  •  Detective Erast Fandorin is caught in Bulgaria in the middle of the brutal Russo-Turkish war in this thriller set in 1877. The third book in the series. (RUS263, $14.00)
 		  
The Winter Queen  •  Boris Akunin  •  Andrew Bromfield   • LITERATURE  •  Akunin sets a suspected murder among the glitterati of late 19th-century Moscow in this first book in the series of clever detective novels starring the rascal Erast Fandorin, wildly popular in Russia. The series continues with: The Turkish Gambit (RUS263), set during the 1877 Russo-Turkish War; Murder on the Leviathan (RUS225), an homage to Christie; and The Death of Achilles (RUS291), back in Moscow. Fandorin is deputy to the governor-general of czarist Moscow in Special Assignments (RUS371), facing a serial murder and a swindler. (RUS210, $15.00)
 		  
To the Hermitage  •  Malcolm Bradbury   • LITERATURE • COMING IN  •  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)
 		  
Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan: Passerines: Tyrant Flycatchers to Buntings  •  Norman Arlott   • FIELD GUIDE  •  This Princeton Illustrated Checklist, spanning all of the Russian Arctic, Europe, China, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and the Middle East, features 80 color plates with range maps and succinct descriptions. (EUR276, $29.95)
 		  
 
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