Author: Ken Follett
Publisher: NAL Trade
Keywords: petersburg, man
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-06-03
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0451208706
ISBN-13: 9780451208705

His name was Feliks. He came to London to commit a murder that would change history. A master manipulator, he had many weapons at his command, but against him were ranged the whole of the English police, a brilliant and powerful lord, and the young Winston Churchill himself. These odds would have stopped any man in the world-except the man from St. Petersburg...

Author: J. M. Coetzee
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: novel, petersburg, master
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1995-11-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0140238107
ISBN-13: 9780140238105

The great Russian novelist Dostoevsky, obsessed with discovering whether his stepson’s sudden death was murder or suicide, finds himself drawn into the violent revolutionary subculture of 1869 Russia, in a work of fiction that is both mystery and psychological portrait. Reprint.

Author: Andrei Bely
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: petersburg
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1979-01-01
List price: $20.95
ISBN-10: 0253202191
ISBN-13: 9780253202192

"... a translation that captures Bely’s idiosyncratic language and the rhythm of his prose, and without doing violence to English, conveys not only the literal meaning of the Russian but also its echoes and implications." -- The New York Review of Books"This translation of Petersburg finally makes it possible to recognize Andrei Bely’s great novel of 1913 as a crucial Russian instance of European modernist fiction." -- Inquiry"All people who go in for the B’s -- Beckett, Brecht, Buñuel -- better get hold of Bely. He came first, and he’s still the best." -- Washington P

Author: Robert W. Orttung
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: petersburg, leningrad
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1995-07-15
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 031212080X
ISBN-13: 9780312120801

From Leningrad to St. Petersburg describes the evolution of local democratic institutions from 1987 to 1994 in Russia’s most important city outside Moscow. Once the birthplace of the Bolshevik revolution, St. Petersburg now plays a central role in the struggle to overcome the communist legacy and establish democracy in Russia. This invaluable book is the first to recount the full sweep of events in this dramatic period. Professor Orttung describes the battles within the local branch of the Communist Party, its alliances with nationalist groups as it attempted to preserve its power before

Author: Jeffrey Reid
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Keywords: petersburg, posting
Number of Pages: 266
Published: 2007-07-30
List price: $20.50
ISBN-10: 1412064996
ISBN-13: 9781412064996

Lord David Mountforte is appointed First Secretary to the British Ambassador at the Court of Catherine the Great, St. Petersburg. Young, personable and rich, David finds himself quickly embraced and invited into the fashionable and wealthy Russian Society. This historical novel, set in the late eighteenth century finds David embroiled in gambling, kidnapping and murder amongst the glamorous Aristocratic lives of some of Russia’s oldest families. Glamour, tragedy, power and love creates a powerful fervid thriller.

Author: Mara Vorhee
Publisher: Lonely Planet
Keywords: guide, city, petersburg
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 174059827X
ISBN-13: 9781740598279

The Hermitage Art Gallery in the Winter Palace is just one of the splendid travel destinations covered in this comprehensive guide to St. Petersburg, written by a former resident of the area. Features in this helpful guidebook include suggestions for daytrips and excursions beyond the city, details on where to view the best examples of architecture, place names and sights in English and Cyrillic, and a language glossary. Color photos & maps.

Author: Solomon Volkov
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: history, cultural, petersburg
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 1997-02-13
List price: $38.95
ISBN-10: 0684832968
ISBN-13: 9780684832968

A compelling portrait of a city and its transcendent artistic and spiritual legacy-written by a cultural historian who has known some of the greatest figures of modern St. Petersburg, including Balanchine, Shostakovich, Akhmatova, and Brodsky. "A rich and enjoyable work". -"The Economist". of photos.