Both a coming-of-age adventure of time spent in search of the romantic Russia the author had dreamed about and a tale of eye-opening amazement as she discovers and gets caught up in the new, anarchic Russia emerging from its Soviet constraints. At its heart is the story of caviar: beluga, the rarest type of sturgeon harvested from the Caspian Sea, is now an endangered species, and no one knows how - or wants - to stop the plunder. People kill for this most prized of foods, and Vanora Bennett set...
A School History of the Great War
by Albert E McKinley and Charles Augustinjoint Coulomb
Nagel's USSR
Insight Compact Guide St. Petersburg (Insight Compact Guide St. Petersburg) (Insight Compact Guides)
by Insight Guides
The Russian Shores of the Black Sea (Russia Observed)
by Laurence Oliphant
In Two Countries Where They Turn Back Time
by Peter Paul O'Callaghan