In Soviet Russia the desire for freedom is also a desire for the freedom to love. Lovers live as outlaws, traitors to the collective spirit, and love is more intense when it feels like an act of resistance. Now entering middle age, an orphan recalls the fleeting moments that have never left him - a scorching day in a blossoming orchard with a woman who loves another; a furtive, desperate affair in a Black Sea resort; the bunch of snowdrops a crippled childhood friend gave him to give to his love...
Fred Markham in Russia or the Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar
by H G W Kingston
Sprachfuhrer Deutsch-Russisch und Thematischer Wortschatz mit 3000 Woertern
by Andrey Taranov
“A subtly crafted reflection of both the bleak and golden shadings of Russian life . . . Its tones belong more to the realm of poetry than journalism.” –The New York Times Book Review At age twenty-five, Andrea Lee joined her husband, a Harvard doctoral candidate in Russian history, for his eight months’ study at Moscow State University and an additional two months in Leningrad. Published to enormous critical acclaim in 1981, Russian Journal is the award-winning author’s penetrating, vivid acco...
Sir Jerome Horsey's Travels and Adventures in Russia and Eastern Europe
This volume details Sir Jerome Horsey's account of his experiences in Russia and other countries. Horsey, who spent the better part of seventeen years in the country until leaving in 1591, was an employee of the Muscovy Company, but also operated as an unofficial ambassador for both the English and Russian governments. He was personally acquainted with such people as Ivan the Terrible, Tsar Fyodor I and Boris Godunov, and gives lively and interesting accounts of his interactions with them, as we...
George Fetherling's Travel Memoirs 3-Book Bundle
by George Fetherling
St Petersburg Insight Guide (Insight Guides) (Insight City Guides)
This guide includes a section detailing St Petersburg's history, seven features covering aspects of the city's life and culture, ranging from dealing with capitalism to theatres and cinemas; a visitor's guide to the sights, and a comprehensive travel tips section packed with essential contact addresses and numbers. Plus hundreds of photographs and four maps, including one of the St Petersburg Metro.
Eastern Europe (Berkeley Guides: The Budget Traveller's Handbook)
by Associated Students of the University of California
A budget guide to the Pacific Northwest written by Berkeley students, this book contains listings of restaurants and cafes, and looks at the music and arts scenes. An Alaskan sports chapter also handles hiking, camping and kayaking.
Time Out Baku & the best of Azerbaijan 1st edition
by Time Out Guides Ltd.
Azerbaijan and its coastal capital of Baku are on the crest of a wave. Swimming in profits from oil and gas, this former Soviet republic by the Caspian Sea is where the Persian, Ottoman and Russian empires converge. Baku reflects this rich history, its lucrative seaboard lined with sumptuous mansions whilst overlooking the bay, new five-star hotels with their panoramic high-end restaurants and sky bars. Down the coast and inland await mysterious mud volcanoes, the rare birdlife of the vast Shirv...
View of the Russian Empire During the Reign of Catharine the Second, and to the Close of the Eighteenth Century