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The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring this epic nation.Travel on the epic Trans-Siberian railway, admire the colourful onion domes of St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow or spend a couple of weeks touring the Volga River: everything you need to know is clearly laid out within colour-coded chapters. Discover the best of Russia with this indispensable travel guide.Inside DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Russia:...

The author describes her experiences living in St. Petersburg, Russia, between 1991 and 1995, as she experiences life after the collaspe of the Soviet Union.

The "Insight Compact Guide to St. Petersburg" is the ultimate quick reference guide to this fascinating destination. It tells you all you need to know about St. Petersburg's attractions, from the grandeur of its imperial palaces to its elegant streets and squares to the overwhelming collections on show at the Hermitage. Packed with information, arranged in easy-to-follow routes, and lavishly illustrated with photographs, this book not only steers you round St. Petersburg but also gives you fasci...

Essential reading for understanding the collapse of the Soviet state. Russell was one of the few western writers permitted into Soviet Georgia during the recent upheaval, and she provides a vivid account of a people forced to suddenly confront their history and their hopes for a new state. ?A gem of a travel book, full of wry observation and earthy humour.??Oxford Times (UK)

This is the first English translation of the famous risala, letters by the tenth-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great Medieval travelers in world history, akin to Ibn Batutta. Ibn Fadlan was an Arab missionary sent by the Caliph in Baghdad to the king of the Bulghars. He journeyed from Baghdad to Bukhara in Central Asia and then continued across the desert to the town of Bulghar, near present Kazan. He describes the tribes he meets on his way and gives an account of their customs. His i...

The Bolsheviks took power in Russia 1917 armed with an ideology centered on the power of the worker. From the beginning, however, Soviet leaders also realized the need for rest and leisure within the new proletarian society and over subsequent decades struggled to reconcile the concept of leisure with the doctrine of communism, addressing such fundamental concerns as what the purpose of leisure should be in a workers' state and how socialist vacations should differ from those enjoyed by the capi...

Inhabited since Neolithic times but not founded until 1147, Moscow was for much of its early history in thrall to other nations--to the Khans, to the Tartars and the Poles. The city was devastated by fire time and again, but with each rebuilding, miraculously, it grew ever more magnificent. For every church that was destroyed, it seemed that two more were built, compounding the resonance of Holy Russia, with its icons, its chanted liturgy, its packed and fervent congregations, pre-eminently resu...

A Guide to the culture and etiquette of Russia allowing the traveller to understand the Russian people and enjoy their stay in Russia whether business or leisure.

"Bill Bryson on two wheels". (Independent). Scaling a new peak of rash over-ambition, Tim Moore tackles the 9,000km route of the old Iron Curtain on a tiny-wheeled, two-geared East German shopping bike. Asking for trouble and getting it, he sets off from the northernmost Norwegian-Russian border at the Arctic winter's brutal height, bullying his plucky MIFA 900 through the endless and massively sub-zero desolation of snowbound Finland. Sleeping in bank vaults, imperial palaces and unreconstructe...

Engineers of the Soul draws the reader into the wild euphoria of the Russian Revolution, as art and reality are bent to radically new purposes. Writers of renown, described by Stalin as 'engineers of the soul', were encouraged to sing the praises of construction. But the initial enthusiasm of Soviet writers faltered as these colossal structures led to slavery and destruction, and they were obliged to labour on in the service of a deluded totalitarian society.Frank Westerman sweeps the reader alo...

Starting from Moscow at the time of the unsuccessful coup, Daniel Farson travelled on horseback, with two Russian companions, in the footsteps of his father, war correspondent Negley Farson, who chronicled his own journey made in 1929 in "Caucasian Journey" and succeeded - where his father failed -in crossing the Klukhor Pass. The author has also written "Soho in the Fifties" and "Limehouse Days".