Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics (McAteer Cathy)(Pevná vazba)

Translating Great Russian Literature: The Penguin Russian Classics (McAteer Cathy)(Pevná vazba)

Launched in 1950, Penguin's Russian Classics quickly progressed to include translations of many great works of Russian literature and the series came to be regarded by readers, both academic and general, as the de facto provider of classic Russian literature in English translation, the legacy of

Lectures on Russian Literature (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback)

The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. 'This volume... never once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great Russians' (Anthony Burgess). Edited and with an Introduction by

Russian Stories(Pevná vazba)

Russian Stories rounds up marvellous short stories by all the Russian heavyweights, including Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Babel and Nabokov, and continuing up to contemporary writers such as Tatyana Tolstaya and the recent Nobel Prize winner,

Russian Splendor: Sumptuous Fashions of the Russian Court (Piotrovsky Mikhail Borisovich)(Pevná vazba)

A stunning volume showcasing the magnificent court dress of the Russian Empire, culled from the authoritative collection at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, photographed with the Winter Palace as a backdrop. Prerevolutionary Russia was renowned for the glamorous and luxurious

One-to-one dictionary - English-Russian & Russian English dictionary(Pevná vazba)

Russian Classics in Russian and English: Learn Russian with Chekhov (Chekhov Anton Pavlovich)(Paperback)

In this book fifteen Chekhov's short stories are presented in three formats: the original Russian texts with stress marks, the parallel English translations and the transliterated texts - Russian words written with Latin letters to facilitate the experience of learning to read Russian. Each text

Strategiya - The Foundations of the Russian Art of Strategy(Pevná vazba)

White Birch - A Russian Reflection (Jeffreys Tom)(Pevná vazba)

The White Birch is a wide-ranging history of the relationship between Russian art, landscape and identity, through the lens of the white birch, Russia's unofficial national

Red Cavalry (Babel Isaac)(Paperback)

One of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel's reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using his own experiences as a journalist and propagandist with the Red Army during the war against

Centenary of the Russian Revolution (1917-2017)(Pevná vazba)

This collection of essays provides an historical, plural and original analysis of the Russian Revolution to mark its first

The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry (Chandler Robert)(Paperback)

An enchanting collection of the very best of Russian poetry, edited by acclaimed translator Robert Chandler together with poets Boris Dralyuk and Irina Mashinski In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, poetry's pre-eminence in Russia was unchallenged, with Pushkin and his

James Bond Origin Vol. 2 (Parker Jeff)(Pevná vazba)

RUSSIAN RUSE: A Norwegian supply ship carrying gold mysteriously sinks. A Russian crew claims the Nazis are responsible. Royal Navy Lieutenant James Bond suspects foul

Routledge Handbook of Russian Security (Kanet Roger E.)(Pevná vazba)

The Routledge Handbook of Russian Security offers a comprehensive collection of essays on all aspects of Russian security and foreign policy by international scholars from across the world. The volume identifies key contemporary topics of research and debate and takes into account the changes that

Russian Gypsy Fortune Telling Cards (Touchkoff Svetlana A.)(Pevná vazba)

Russian Gypsy fortune telling cards and accompanying

Russia in Revolution: An Empire in Crisis, 1890 to 1928 (Smith S. A.)(Pevná vazba)

The Russian Revolution of 1917 transformed the face of the Russian empire, politically, economically, socially, and culturally, and also profoundly affected the course of world history for the rest of the twentieth century. Now, to mark the centenary of this epochal event, historian Steve Smith

Former People - The Destruction of the Russian Aristocracy (Smith Douglas)(Paperback / softback)

The last great untold story of the Russian

Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files: Volume I (Murray Damon)(Pevná vazba)

Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files Volume I features more than 180 photographs of Russian criminal tattoos and official police papers from the collection of Arkady Bronnikov, regarded as Russia's foremost authority on criminal tattoo iconography. From the mid-1960s to the late 1980s, Bronnikov

The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (Slezkine Yuri)(Pevná vazba)

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destruction The House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of

The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Homer)(Paperback)

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, presents us with Homer's

Revolution: Russian Art 1917-1932 (Milner John)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of Russian art, design, and filmt, from its proliferation in the aftermath of the 1917 October Revolution to its eventual repression under

The Tale of Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird, and the Grey Wolf (Afanasyev Alexander)(Pevná vazba)

The popular Russian fairy tale about Tsarevich Ivan befriended by a clever grey wolf was recorded by the renowned folklorist Alexander Nikolayevich Afanasyev (1826-1871), who collected and published more than 600 Russian folk tales in the middle 19th century. The illustrations included in this

Dark Avenues (Bunin Ivan)(Paperback)

One of the great achievements of twentieth-century Russian migr literature, Dark Avenues--translated here for the first time into English in its entirety--took Bunin's poetic mastery of language to new heights. Written between 1938 and 1944 and set in the context of the Russian cultural and

Beyond Faberg: Imperial Russian Jewelry (Betteley Marie)(Pevná vazba)

A rare look at the exquisite world of Russian treasures that lies beyond Faberg . Imperial Russia evokes images of a vanished court's unparalleled splendor: magnificent tiaras, gem-encrusted necklaces, snuffboxes, and other diamond-studded baubles of the tsars and tsarinas. During that time,

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia, Volume 1 (Baldaev Danzig)(Pevná vazba)

The first installment of the tattoo collection that became a publishing phenomenonOccasionally a book is published that reveals a subculture you never dreamt existed. More rarely, that book goes on to become a phenomenon of its own. The 2004 publication of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia