Books

National Book Award winner M. T. Anderson delivers a brilliant and riveting account of the Siege of Leningrad and the role played by Soviet Russian composer DmitriHI Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony

From a 1999 series of exhibitions, this book focuses on Soviet nonconformist artists who represent an extraordinary point of departure for discussions of what can be called a second Avant-Garde. This catalogue is intended as a reference work.

Woody and Little Pip, the acorn children, set off on an adventure flying through the air on an autumn leaf. When they don't come home, their friend Hazel sets off to find them.

Christopher is playing alone in his garden when a magical adventure begins.

In the roots of an old tree live the children of the forest. Each season brings new adventures.

The Soviet city that was never built: six visions of Moscow from the great architects of modernist Russia

Monumental mosaics were created throughout the USSR, but they played a special role in its capital.

A comprehensive journey through Georgia's Soviet era architectural mosaics once regarded as propagandistic tools of a failed ideology are now recognized for their artistic merit but under threat of destruction.

A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center.

A landmark anthology that will introduce many extraordinary, unknown Russian writers to an English-language readership for the first time

A charming tale of family, over-the-top housekeeping, and the sport of storytelling by way of the author's amazing Grandma Tonia, who arrived in Palestine from Russia in 1923 and lived in a constant state of battle with the family’s biggest enemy: dirt.

A 19th-century Russian masterpiece about love, politics, family, and the tension between the new generation and the old world.