The Best of Russian Life
Subtitle: fine readings from two decades : volume 1 : history and culture
Publisher: Russian Life Books; Russian Information Services
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Montpelier, VT
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 582
ISBN-13: 9781880100684
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Very Old Ladoga; title: The Celebration of Summer; title: Suzdal; title: May the Steam Be With You; title: The Battle on the Ice; title: The Tver Uprising; title: Kremlin Ghosts; title: In the Footsteps of St. George; title: Knights of the Don; title: The Little Water of Life; title: Islands of Mystery; title: Two Cities: A Tale; title: An End to Heresy; title: St. Basil's: The Stuff of Legend; title: Alexandrovo Sloboda; title: Bolotnikov's Rebellion; title: Steeped in Tradition; title: The Bering Strait; title: Salt in their Wounds; title: Fighting Mankind's Worst Enemy; title: Dawn of the Russian Navy; title: Secret Mission; title: The New, New Year; title: The Life and Times of the Russian Peasant House; title: Feast Amid Carnage; title: The Museum of Ballet; title: By Axe, Rope and Bullet; title: Tuber or Not Tuber; title: Inside the Bolshoi; title: The Magical World of the Russian Circus; title: A Tumultuous Century Begins; title: The First Ambassador; title: The Decembrists; title: In the Land of Magic Art; title: The Treasury of Russian Art; title: A Gift for Young Housewives; title: The Spirit Wrestlers of Southern Russia; title: 1905: The New Year's Blizzard; title: The October Manifesto; title: The Tunguska X-File; title: The Victory that Wasn't; title: When Things Fall Apart; title: The Body Politic; title: Russian Lacquer Miniatures; title: Blood for the Revolution; title: For Whom the Bells; title: Saving the Chelyuskin; title: AWorld Apart; title: The Year Soaked in Blood; title: The Bryansk Forest Sternly Stirred; title: Siege; title: Daily Bread; title: Moscow Knights; title: Stalingrad; title: A Match at Gunpoint; title: Lost and Found in Siberia; title: War With Japan; title: All's Fair in Party Warfare; title: Khrushchev's Secret Speech; title: The Kitchen Debate; title: Digging Up the Past; title: On Moscow's Orders; title: 30 Years Under the Winter Sun; title: The Strangely Lucky Flight of Mathias Rust; title: The Secret Life of a Russian Santa Claus; title: The Cats Who Guard the Hermitage; title: Duck Devil and Little Wolf; title: Keeping a Sweet Tradition Alive; title: Peculiarities of Russia's National Mushroom Hunt; title: Kolyma Gold; title: May the Earth Be as Soft as Feathers; title: The Coldest Village on Earth; title: Their Lives for Their Art; title: Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves; title: A Floating Confessional; title: The Lighthouse Master