Posts tagged with ‘Russia’
May 14, 2013
URBAN EXPLORATION, FROM the catacombs of Paris to the bridges of New York, captured in an exciting memoir.
Grade: B PLUS
HIDDEN CITIES: TRAVELS TO THE SECRET CORNERS OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST METROPOLISES---A MEMOIR OF URBAN EXPLORATION
Penguin/Tarcher
2013
Tags: Architecture, B Plus Reviews, Brazil, History, London, New York City, Non-Fiction, Paris, Rome, Russia, Ukraine
February 21, 2013
FASCINATING STORIES OF the lives of the Russian aristocracy, from the eve of revolution to later reprisals.
Grade: SOLID B
FORMER PEOPLE: THE FINAL DAYS OF THE RUSSIAN ARISTOCRACY
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2012
Tags: History, Non-Fiction, Politics, Russia, Russian Revolution, Social and Cultural Commentary, Solid B Reviews
January 14, 2013
WITH INSIGHTS FROM new research and recently opened archives, a fresh biography of Rasputin reveals much.
Grade: SOLID B
RASPUTIN: THE UNTOLD STORY
Wiley
2012
Tags: Biography, History, Non-Fiction, Rasputin, Russia, Social History, Solid B Reviews
January 9, 2013
OFFBEAT, DARK SATIRE about a little Russian boy afflicted with hiccups and the odd ducks who try to cure him.
Grade: SOLID B
THE LAST HICCUP
ECW Press
2012
Tags: Historical Fiction, Novels, Russia, Solid B Reviews
June 24, 2012
SWEEPING HISTORICAL NOVEL tells the story of Catherine the Great’s rise to the Russian throne. Engrossing!
Grade: B PLUS
THE WINTER PALACE: A NOVEL OF CATHERINE THE GREAT
Random House
2012
Tags: B Plus Reviews, Historical Fiction, Novels, Russia
March 11, 2011
ENGROSSING MEDITATION on Russia’s history and geography by an English expatriate scholar is witty, informative.
Grade: B PLUS
MOLOTOV'S MAGIC LANTERN
Farrar Straus Giroux
2011
Tags: B Plus Reviews, History, Non-Fiction, Russia, USSR