Books

A gorgeous collection from cult classic Polish author Bruno Schulz: 15 of the most captivatingly strange and beautiful short stories ever written.

This book, a labor of love by St. Petersburg-born cartoonist and illustrator, Andrey Feldshteyn, is from the ongoing TMORA exhibition of antiwar political cartoons by cartoonists from Ukraine and Russia in response to the Russian aggression in Ukraine.

In 1945 Isaiah Berlin met Anna Akhmatova almost by chance in what was then Leningrad. The brief time they spent together one long November evening was a transformng experience for both, and has become a cardinal moment in modern literary history.

In this astonishing new work from one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, Ian Frazier trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia.

A groundbreaking exposé showing how the arts—alongside diet, sleep, exercise and nature—are the forgotten fifth pillar of health.

This is the first time that photographs of the spectacular locations of the Soviet Buran space program have been published in a book.

A tortured genius, a sensitive soul, and a great composer burdened by the weight of his private desires, Tchaikovsky’s life is explored in full by the incomparable John Suchet.

On the trail of Soviet infiltrator Stanislav Shumovsky, codenamed Agent BLÉRIOT, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation.

Admire a whole range of Alphonse Mucha's work here in its full glory with succinct accompanying text.

The early years of Bolshevik rule were marked by dynamic interaction between Russia and the West. These years of civil war in Russia were years when the West strove to understand the new communist regime while also seeking to undermine it.

The Spirited Kitchen by Carmen Spagnola Weave magic into every day with seasonal cooking and craft designed for each solstice, equinox, and halfway point in between!

A majestic cultural and environmental history that reveals how forests have made—and resisted—Russia’s many empires.