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Suggested Reading courtesy of Tania Illingworth (nee Tolstoy) Russian Travel Consultant

GENERAL GUIDEBOOKS

Rose Baring Cadogan Guide: St. Petersburg (Cadogan Guides)

Tom Masters Lonely Planet: St. Petersburg (Lonely Planet)

Dan Richardson St. Petersburg – The Rough Guide (Rough Guides)

Kyril Zinovieff & Jenny Hughes Companion Guide to St. Petersburg (Companion)

Dorling Kindersley Publishing Eyewitness Travel Guide to St. Petersburg

Publisher: A&C Black Blue Guide: Moscow and Leningrad

James Jenkin & Inn Zaitseva Lonely Planet: Russian Phrasebook

HISTORY

Ronald Hingley A Concise History of Russia

Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia

Robert Massie Peter the Great

Henry Troyat Catherine the Great

Isbel de Madariaga Russia in the Age of Catherine the Great

Simon Sebag-Montefiore Prince of Princes: The Life of Prince Potemkin

HISTORY (ctd.)

Laurence Kelly A Traveller's Companion to st Petersburg

Geoffrey Hosking Russia: People and Empire 1552-1917

Henry Troyat Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror

Robert Massie Nicholas and Alexandra

Orlando Figes A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924

Richard Overy Russia's War

Harrison E. Salisbury The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad

Alexander Solzhenitzin August 1914

Dominic Lieven Nicholas II

Antony Beevor Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege, 1942-1943

W. Bruce Lincoln Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia

Alexander Solzhenitzin One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Alexander Solzhenitzin The First Circle

Irina Ratushinskaya Grey is the Colour of Hope

Nikolai Tolstoy Victims of Yalta

Richard Pipes Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime

ART& ARCHITECTURE

George Hamilton The Art and Architecture of Russia

Colin Eisler Paintings in the Hermitage

Suzanne Massie Pavlovsk : The Life of a Russian Palace

Katya Galitzine Romanov Legacy, The : The Palaces of St. Petersburg

Geraldine Norman The Hermitage: The Biography of a Great Museum

Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh British painting, sixteenth to nineteenth centuries (The Hermitage catalogue of Western European painting)

Will Black The Chinese Palace at Oranienbaum : Catherine the Great's Private Passion (Great Palaces)

Cathy Giangrande Saint Petersburg: Museums, Palaces, and Historic Collections (Museums)?

GENERL LITERATURE

Anna Benn & Rosamund Bartlett Literary Russia: A Guide

Eugenie Fraser The House by the Dvina: A Russian Scottish Childhood

Suzanne Massie Land of the Firebird

Sacheverell Sitwell Valse des fleurs: A day in St. Petersburg and a ball at the Winter Palace in 1868

Christine Sutherland The Princess of Siberia: The Story of Maria Volkonsky and the Decembrist Exiles

Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago

Nadezhda Mandelstein Hope Against Hope: A Memoir

Cathy Giangrande Saint Petersburg: Museums, Palaces, and Historic Collections (Museums)?

Prince Felix Yussupov Lost splendour

David Duff Hessian tapestry: The Hesse family and British royalty

CLASSIC LITERARY WORKS

The following works are classic Russian literary works. There are various translations available, and they may be obtained in hardback or paperback from numerous publishers.

Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev Fathers and Sons

Alexandr Sergeevich Pushkin Eugene Onegin

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol Nikolai Gogol Plays And Petersburg Tales

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol Dead Souls

Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov A Hero Of Our Time

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky Crime and Punishment

Sergei Timofeevich Aksakov Years of Childhood

Leo Tolstoy Childhood; Boyhood; Youth

Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy War and Peace

Mikhail Bulgakov Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov The White Guard

Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy Road to Calvary

GENERAL WITH PHOTOGRAPHS

Nishen Portrait of Tsarist Russia

Prince George Galitzine Imperial Splendour : The Palaces and Monasteries of Old Russia

Fitzroy Maclean Portrait of the Soviet Union

Prince Michael of Greece Nicholas and Alexandra: The Family Albums

Rosanna Kelly Russia