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HISTORY/ RUSSIA
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-- Biography & Autobiography
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A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People, by Nadieszda Kizenko
"A powerful and multi-dimensional portrait of the controversial Father John of Kronstadt, presented against the backdrop of Late Imperial religious life. Reading this book is like stepping back into the world of a century ago, seeing the concerns, both material and spiritual, which occupied people's lives." Eve Levin, Ohio State University. 384pp Paper
Price: $33.00
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A Writer's Diary, by Fedor M. Dostoevsky; Translated and Annotated by Kenneth Lantz
The essential entries from Dostoevsky's complete Diary, called his boldest experiment in literary form, are now available in this abridged edition; it is a uniquely encyclopedic forum of fictional and nonfictional genres. 500pp Paper
Price: $28.00
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Anton Chekhov: A Brother's Memoir, by Mikhail Chekhov; Translated by Eugene Alper
In a style reminiscent of Anton Chekhov himself - realistic, intimate, and dynamic - Mikhail Chekhov shares unparalleled memories and insights, transporting readers into the world of the Chekhov family. 256pp Hardcover
Price: $26.00
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Anton Chekhov: A Life, by Donald Rayfield
"Without question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and like to remain so for a very long time to come. . . . [Rayfield] captures a likeness of the notoriously elusive Chekhov, which at last begins to seem recognizably human - and even more extraordinary." - Michael Frayn. 674pp Paper
Price: $23.00
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Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography Volume 1, by Christopher Barnes
This authoritative new biography of the Russian poet and prose writer Boris Pasternak is the first part of a two-volume set, covering the period 1890-1928. 557pp Paper
Price: $99.00
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Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography Volume 2, by Christopher Barnes
This is the long-awaited concluding volume of Christopher Barnes's acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and prose writer, Boris Pasternak. 512pppp Paper
Price: $55.00
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Catherine the Great: A Short History (2nd Edition), by Isabel De Madariaga
"A panoramic view of Russia's social, political, economic, and cultural development and of its emergence as a formidable power in the international arena during the thirty-four years of [Catherine's] reign." - Anthony Cross, New York Times Book Review. 256pp Paper
Price: $15.00
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Cross and the Sickle (The): Sergei Bulgakov and the Fate of Russian Religious Philosophy, 1890-1920, by Catherine Evtuhov
Catherine Evtuhov resurrects the brilliant and contradictory currents of turn-of-the-century Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg through an intellectual biography of Sergei Bulgakov (1871-1944), one of the central figures of the Silver Age. 320pp Cloth
Price: $84.00
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