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Less Than One: Selected Essays
Less Than One: Selected Essays
On Grief and Reason: Essays
On Grief and Reason: Essays
Invaluable Gift: The State Tretyakov Art Gallery
Invaluable Gift: The State Tretyakov Art Gallery
A DVD showing off the beauty that is the Tretyakov.
Earlier Poems: Joseph Brodsky
Earlier Poems: Joseph Brodsky
A CD featuring Brodsky reading some of his poems.
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945
A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny
River of No Reprieve: Descending Siberia's Waterway of Exile, Death, and Destiny
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War
An intimate portrait of the capital at war, based on hundreds of interviews and memoirs.
Russia: Beyond Utopia
Russia: Beyond Utopia
Andrew Moore's wonderful photographic book on contemporary Russia is a must-have for contemporary Russophiles.
Testimony: Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
Testimony: Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich
The controversial memoirs of Shostakovich, as told to Solomov Volkov.
Shostakovich: A Life
Shostakovich: A Life
A recent biography of the great composer.
The Don Flows Again
The Don Flows Again
A 1998 review of the most recent translation of Quiet Flows the Don.
Red Files
Red Files
A PBS interview with Morris Cohen.
Rezanov on Tolstoy
Rezanov on Tolstoy
[In Russian]: The thoughts of Commandor Rezanov on his feisty cruise-mate.
Tolstoy the American
Tolstoy the American
[In Russian]: Vladimir Vladmeli's biography of Tolstoy.
The Crime
The Crime
A short story by Vladimir Gilyarovsky, with Russian and English side by side.
Perelman's world
Perelman's world
The Wikipedia entry on Grigory Perelman offers interesting background on the mathematical world.
Watch this!
Watch this!
An online role-playing game inspired by the Watch movies.
Fyodor's Site
Fyodor's Site
Excellent site on all things Dostoyevskian.

 

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Songs of Faith, Love and Delight! June 7
June 07, 2024

Songs of Faith, Love and Delight! June 7

St. Mark's Episcopal Church | Berkeley, California

San Francisco's Slavyanka Chorus invites you to a concert featuring a colorful tapestry of folk songs and sacred hymns by renowned women composers.

Songs of Faith, Love and Delight! June 9
June 09, 2024

Songs of Faith, Love and Delight! June 9

Star of the Sea Church | San Francisco, California

San Francisco's Slavyanka Chorus invites you to a concert featuring a colorful tapestry of folk songs and sacred hymns by renowned women composers.

Roma Rhapsody
June 15, 2024

Roma Rhapsody

Capital One Hall | Tysons, Virginia

The Washington Balalaika Society Orchestra's Spring Concert, Roma Rhapsody, will be at 7:30 pm on Saturday June 15, 2024.

Songs of Faith, Love and Delight! June 8
June 08, 2024

Songs of Faith, Love and Delight! June 8

First Congregational Church | Palo Alto, California

San Francisco's Slavyanka Chorus invites you to a concert featuring a colorful tapestry of folk songs and sacred hymns by renowned women composers.

A Few of Our Books

A Taste of Russia

A Taste of Russia

The definitive modern cookbook on Russian cuisine has been totally updated and redesigned in a 30th Anniversary Edition. Layering superbly researched recipes with informative essays on the dishes' rich historical and cultural context, A Taste of Russia includes over 200 recipes on everything from borshch to blini, from Salmon Coulibiac to Beef Stew with Rum, from Marinated Mushrooms to Walnut-honey Filled Pies. A Taste of Russia shows off the best that Russian cooking has to offer. Full of great quotes from Russian literature about Russian food and designed in a convenient wide format that stays open during use.
93 Untranslatable Russian Words

93 Untranslatable Russian Words

Every language has concepts, ideas, words and idioms that are nearly impossible to translate into another language. This book looks at nearly 100 such Russian words and offers paths to their understanding and translation by way of examples from literature and everyday life. Difficult to translate words and concepts are introduced with dictionary definitions, then elucidated with citations from literature, speech and prose, helping the student of Russian comprehend the word/concept in context.
Tolstoy Bilingual

Tolstoy Bilingual

This compact, yet surprisingly broad look at the life and work of Tolstoy spans from one of his earliest stories to one of his last, looking at works that made him famous and others that made him notorious. 
White Magic

White Magic

The thirteen tales in this volume – all written by Russian émigrés, writers who fled their native country in the early twentieth century – contain a fair dose of magic and mysticism, of terror and the supernatural. There are Petersburg revenants, grief-stricken avengers, Lithuanian vampires, flying skeletons, murders and duels, and even a ghostly Edgar Allen Poe.
Driving Down Russia's Spine

Driving Down Russia's Spine

The story of the epic Spine of Russia trip, intertwining fascinating subject profiles with digressions into historical and cultural themes relevant to understanding modern Russia. 
Survival Russian

Survival Russian

Survival Russian is an intensely practical guide to conversational, colloquial and culture-rich Russian. It uses humor, current events and thematically-driven essays to deepen readers’ understanding of Russian language and culture. This enlarged Second Edition of Survival Russian includes over 90 essays and illuminates over 2000 invaluable Russian phrases and words.
The Little Humpbacked Horse (bilingual)

The Little Humpbacked Horse (bilingual)

A beloved Russian classic about a resourceful Russian peasant, Vanya, and his miracle-working horse, who together undergo various trials, exploits and adventures at the whim of a laughable tsar, told in rich, narrative poetry.
A Taste of Chekhov

A Taste of Chekhov

This compact volume is an introduction to the works of Chekhov the master storyteller, via nine stories spanning the last twenty years of his life.
The Pet Hawk of the House of Abbas

The Pet Hawk of the House of Abbas

This exciting new trilogy by a Russian author – who has been compared to Orhan Pamuk and Umberto Eco – vividly recreates a lost world, yet its passions and characters are entirely relevant to the present day. Full of mystery, memorable characters, and non-stop adventure, The Pet Hawk of the House of Abbas is a must read for lovers of historical fiction and international thrillers.  

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