Books

At once an old hag and an enchantress, a demon and wish granter, a feminist and nothing more than a fairytale, Baba Yaga is an endlessly complex folktale character. Here is an in-depth look at her mythos and history through Slavic folklore.

Do you love the forms and colors of the Art Deco era?  Do you love good design?  This Art Deco easel desk calendar is for you.  It features 12 vintage images (1919 - 1939) of classic Art Deco graphics, gardens, and architecture. 

Tava is a meticulously researched baking book celebrating centuries of diversity and overlapping cultures that form today’s cuisine in Romania.

Sour Cherries & Sunflowers celebrates culture and connection, with recipes to preserve and feed the soul.

In From Forest to Steppe, renowned scholar and photographer William Craft Brumfield offers a panoramic survey of Russia’s centuries-long heritage of wooden architecture.

In Molotov’s Magic Lantern, Polonsky visits the haunted cities and vivid landscapes of the books from Molotov’s library: works by Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Akhmatova, and others, some of whom were sent to the Gulag by the very man who collected their

Jumping between the diaries of Jacob Ossetsky in Kiev in the early 1900s and his granddaughter's experiences in the theatrical world of Moscow in the 1970s, the reader is guided through some of the most turbulent times in the history of Russia and Ukraine

Natasha Randall presents a new, curated collection of Gogol’s short fiction, selected from the work of Constance Garnett, one of Gogol’s earliest translators.

Rich with love stories, intrigue, and a cast of dissenters and spies, The Big Green Tent offers a panoramic survey of life after Stalin and a dramatic investigation into the prospects for individual integrity in a society defined by the KGB.

From the author of Soviet Bus Stops, an underground trip through the Soviet Metro.
“For us,” said Nikita Khrushchev, “there was something supernatural about the Metro.” Visiting any of the dozen or so Metro networks, it is easy to see why.

The third part of a popular course of Russian is intended for continuing to study Russian at a basic level (A2). The textbook is designed on the average for 80-120 hours.

With an introduction by renowned architecture critic Owen Hatherley, complete with historical images, cements these buildings in a cultural and political context.