Books

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

Offering a close examination of these two-thousand-year-old occult practices, Helvin also includes Slavic folk advice adapted for the modern era.

This collection of traditional stories will sweep you away to the birch forests and ornate palaces of Russia. You'll meet a mysterious girl born from snow, a terrifying Baba Yaga, and heroines and heroes willing to fight dragons and cross fiery rivers.

An impassioned firsthand account of the Russian Revolution by John Reed, American journalist and revolutionary writer.

In this ebullient masterpiece, Gogol creates a grotesque gallery of human types that is a classic study in social psychology.

Explore the exciting cultural confluences of The Baltics -- sharing stories from the locals around the capitals and discovering a dynamic new style of cooking!

Volume 2 of Solzhenitsyn's three-part masterpiece: the story of his entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain for nearly a decade.

A full and simplified approach to Russian grammar, covering a 4,000-word vocabulary and 42 lessons in the basic principles of the language.

An exploration into the culinary identity of Ukraine through stunning food and travel photography, interspersed with stories and memories of "summer kitchens."

Classic Russian novel for the ages, of love and revolution, from the great Russian poet Boris Pasternak.

One hundred years after the Russian Revolution, Revolution: Russian Art, 1917–1932 explores one of the most momentous periods in modern world history through its groundbreaking art.

From the Mongol hordes of the 13th century, the autocratic fists of successive tsars, to the fall of the Soviet Union and Russia's re-emergence as a superpower.