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All proceeds from our book sales support the outstanding exhibitions, cultural presentations, and educational programs of The Museum of Russian Art.

The art of reading: reading and literature have always had a central and valuable place in the heart of Russian culture -- from Medieval folk tales, the Soviet reflections of The Master and Margarita, to the animated memoirs of Russian emigres. 

Please enjoy a wide selection of titles that aim to represent the depth and dynamism of Russian culture, art, and history!

Red At Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution
A century after 1917, this book offers a novel story about Chinese communism, the Russian Revolution's most geopolitically significant legacy.
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Red At Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution
$34.95
The Elusive Empire: Kazan and the Creation of Russia
Romaniello shows how Muscovite Russia learned to manage conquered lands and peoples after taking the city of Kazan in 1552 -- a direct route to global trading and building an empire.
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The Elusive Empire: Kazan and the Creation of Russia
$29.95
Russia In Flames: War, Revolution, and Civil War
Russia in Flames explores the period of 1914–1921 and how the procession of war, collapse, and disintegration brought Russian communists to power.
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Russia In Flames: War, Revolution, and Civil War
$39.95
Forager's Pantry
This comprehensive and accessible book by Ellen Zachos takes readers through spices and herbs, flowers, fruit, greens, nuts and seeds, tubes and roots, and mushrooms, showing how some of the best ingredients come from nature itself.
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Forager's Pantry
$24.99
The Merchants of Siberia
Monahan reconsiders commerce in early modern Russia by reconstructing the trading world of Siberia and the merchants who traded there.
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The Merchants of Siberia
$25.95
The Jewish Cookbook
Featuring more than 400 home-cooking recipes for everyday and holiday foods from the Middle East to the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa - as well as contemporary interpretations by renowned chefs including Yotam Ottolenghi, Michael Solomonov, and Alex
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The Jewish Cookbook
$49.95
The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
Pulitzer-Prize winner Robert Massie answers the fatal question of the Romanovs' fate -- from the gates of revolution to new truths in post-communist Russia.
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The Romanovs: The Final Chapter
$15.00
Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir
A memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an actual employee of the Soviet secret police.
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Gulag Boss: A Soviet Memoir
$29.95
Russia in a Box
Andrew Jenks describes how the unique art form of lacquer art produced in the village of Palekh helped artists and craftsmen reshape the Russian national identity.
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Russia in a Box
$25.00
Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
Halberstadt takes us across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of family.
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Young Heroes of the Soviet Union
$28.00
The Black Russian (Hardcover, Signed)
The incredible true story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, a Black American who made and lost his fortunes in Moscow and Constantinople at the turn of the century.
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The Black Russian (Hardcover, Signed)
$25.00
A Very Russian Christmas
A collection of short Christmas stories by some of Russia’s greatest nineteenth and twentieth century authors.
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A Very Russian Christmas
$24.95