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The Moscow Eccentric

Andrei Bely

• Paperback | Engels
• This newly rediscovered gem of a novel by one of Russia's finest writers explores some of the thorniest issues of the early twentieth century. And rev... Lees meer

Jews in Service to the Tsar

Lev Berdnikov

• Paperback | Engels
• Benjamin Disraeli advised, "Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory." With Jews in Service to the Tsar , Lev Berdnikov... Lees meer

East of the Sun

Benson Bobrick

• Paperback | Engels
• The very word Siberia evokes a history and reputation as awesome as it is enthralling. In this acclaimed book on Russia's conquest of its eastern real... Lees meer

Faith & Humor

Maya Kucherskaya

• Paperback | Engels
• A book that dares to explore the humanity of priests and pilgrims, saints and sinners, Faith & Humor has been both a runaway bestseller in Russia and ... Lees meer

The Little Humpbacked Horse

Pyotr Ershov

• Paperback | Engels
• The Little Humpbacked Horse is a beloved Russian classic, written in the 1830s. It is the tale of a resourceful Russian peasant, Vanya, and his miracl... Lees meer

Fearful Majesty

Benson Bobrick

• Paperback | Engels
• Ivan the Terrible - the name evokes the legend of a cruel and dangerously insane tyrant. Fearful Majesty explores that legend and exposes the man, his... Lees meer

Bears in the Caviar

Charles W Thayer

• Paperback | Engels
• Bears in the Caviar is a hilarious and insightful memoir by a diplomat who was "present at the creation" of US-Soviet relations. Charles Thayer headed... Lees meer

Moscow and Muscovites

Vladimir Gilyarovsky

• Paperback | Engels
• Vladimir Gilyarovsky's classic portrait of the Russian capital is one of Russians' most beloved books. Yet it has never before been translated into En... Lees meer

White Magic

• Paperback | Engels
• THE THIRTEEN TALES IN THIS VOLUME - a baker's dozen of stories - were all written by Russian émigrés, writers who fled their native country in the e... Lees meer

Woe From Wit

Alexander Griboyedov

• Paperback | Engels
• ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS OF RUSSIAN PLAYS, the four-act comedy in verse Woe from Wit skewers staid, nineteenth century Russian society, and it positivel... Lees meer

The Latchkey Murders

Bayer Alexei

• Paperback | Engels
• Senior Lieutenant Pavel Matyushkin is back on the case in this prequel to the popular mystery Murder at the Dacha. A serial killer is on the loose in ... Lees meer

Davai! The Russians and Their Vodka

Edwin Trommelen

• Paperback | Engels
• You cannot separate Russians from their vodka or vodka from Russia. For over 600 years, this proud Slavic culture has - for good or ill - been inextri... Lees meer

The Little Golden Calf

Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov, Il'ia Ilf

• Paperback | Engels
• This brand new translation of the famous satirical sequel to The Twelve Chairs resurrects the con man Ostap Bender, the smooth operator, and follows h... Lees meer

Murder and the Muse

Alexei Bayer

• Paperback | Engels
• KGB Chief Yuri Andropov himself has tapped Senior Detective Matyushkin to solve a brazen jewel heist from Picasso's wife at the posh Metropole Hotel. ... Lees meer

Marooned in Moscow

Marguerite Harrison

• Paperback | Engels
• Soon after Marguerite Harrison's gripping autobiography was published, the New York Times called it the most interesting and valuable book available o... Lees meer

Stargorod

Peter Aleshkovsky, Nina Murray

• Paperback | Engels
• "Stargorod is emphatically not big..." So begins Peter Aleshkovsky's profound, humorous, mystical and poetic novel in stories - a tribute to Russian p... Lees meer

Murder at the Dacha

Alexei Bayer

• Paperback | Engels
• Senior Lieutenant Pavel Matyushkin has a problem. Several, actually. Not the least of them is the fact that a powerful Soviet boss has been murdered, ... Lees meer

Steppe

Anton Chekhov, Paul Richardson

• Paperback | Engels
• IT IS THE WORK THAT MADE CHEKHOV, launching his career as a writer and playwright of national and international renown. And it is an elegiac, beautifu... Lees meer

Life Stories

• Paperback | Engels
• A novelist catches up with his future... a president is under house arrest after setting off a nuclear war... an off-planet skipper leads a hunt for a... Lees meer

Maria's War

Maria Bochkareva

• Paperback | Engels
• This astonishingly gripping autobiography by the founder of the Russian Women's Death Battallion in World War I is an eye-opening documentary of life ... Lees meer

Driving Down Russia's Spine

Paul E Richardson

• Paperback | Engels
• On one level, this book is the story of an epic 6000-kilometer road trip from the frigid shores of the Barents Sea to Sochi, Russia's southernmost tip... Lees meer

At the Circus

Alexander Kuprin

• Paperback | Engels
• This wonderful novella by Alexander Kuprin tells the story of the wrestler Arbuzov and his battle against a renowned American wrestler. Rich in detail... Lees meer

Red Star Tales

Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky

• Paperback | Engels
• For over a century, most of the science fiction produced by the world's largest country has been beyond the reach of Western readers. This new collect... Lees meer