CLASSIC LITERATURE
► ♥ Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
♦ $ Michael Strogoff: Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne, ill. by N.C. Wyeth
Exciting adventure story of a heroic young man; Michael Strogoff's journey over thousands of miles in 19th century Russia.
♥ War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. Tolstoy's epic ranges from stirring depictions of historical events to intimate portraits of family life, moving between public spectacles and private lives to offer a tale of both panoramic scope and closely observed detail.
♥ Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.
♦ $ Michael Strogoff: Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne, ill. by N.C. Wyeth
Exciting adventure story of a heroic young man; Michael Strogoff's journey over thousands of miles in 19th century Russia.
♥ War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. Tolstoy's epic ranges from stirring depictions of historical events to intimate portraits of family life, moving between public spectacles and private lives to offer a tale of both panoramic scope and closely observed detail.
♥ Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel, published just before his death in 1881, chronicles the bitter love-hate struggle between the outsized Fyodor Karamazov and his three very different sons. It is above all the story of a murder, told with hair-raising intellectual clarity and a feeling for the human condition unsurpassed in world literature.
CULTURAL
FC N10-31 Russian Music
FC WS22 Russia
FC WS22 Russia
♥ The World’s Story, Volume 6 by Eva March Tappan (1914)
The history of the world in art, song and story
The history of the world in art, song and story
HISTORICAL
♥ Historical Tales: Russian by Charles Morris
♦ $ Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
"In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives."
♥ Recollections of pre-Revolutionary Russia by Alexander Alboo
A personal memoir of what happened to one family 'during the time of the most unheard of upheaval in the history of humanity.'
♦ Stalin: Russia's Man of Steel by Albert Marrin
♥ Story of the Nations Russia and Poland (1928) by Henry Cabot Lodge
History of the Nations Series
♥ $ The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
"The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile."
♥ The Story of Russia by William Morfill (1890)
Story of the Nations Series
♦ $ Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie
"In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs’ lives."
♥ Recollections of pre-Revolutionary Russia by Alexander Alboo
A personal memoir of what happened to one family 'during the time of the most unheard of upheaval in the history of humanity.'
♦ Stalin: Russia's Man of Steel by Albert Marrin
♥ Story of the Nations Russia and Poland (1928) by Henry Cabot Lodge
History of the Nations Series
♥ $ The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
"The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile."
♥ The Story of Russia by William Morfill (1890)
Story of the Nations Series
HISTORICAL FICTION
♦ $ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength.
In the madness of World War II, a dutiful Russian soldier is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to ten years in a Siberian labor camp. So begins this masterpiece of modern Russian fiction, a harrowing account of a man who has conceded to all things evil with dignity and strength.
BIOGRAPHIES
FC W12-344 Catherine Breshkovsky
FC G12-164 Leo Tolstoy
FC G12-164 Leo Tolstoy
♥ $ Beloved Friend: A Story of Tchaikovsky by Catherine Drinker Bowen
These letters along with Bowen's commentary brings to life Russian society and the beautiful yet harsh landscape the Russian people are so passionate over. Their letters also touch on the political and social upheavals and the personal effect on their lives.
♦ Empress of All Russia: Catherine the Great by Iris Noble
Messner Biography
♦ Lenin: The Man Who Made a Revolution by I.E. Levine
Messner Biography
♥ Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott
Makers of History Series
♥ Peter the Great by Nina Brown Baker
♦ Stormy Victory: The Story of Tchaikovsky by Claire Lee Purdy
Messner Biography
♦ Stravinsky by Percy M. Young
Masters of Music Series
♦ Tchaikovsky by Percy M. Young
Master Musicians Series
♦ $ Trotsky: World Revolutionary by Jules Archer
Messner Biography
These letters along with Bowen's commentary brings to life Russian society and the beautiful yet harsh landscape the Russian people are so passionate over. Their letters also touch on the political and social upheavals and the personal effect on their lives.
♦ Empress of All Russia: Catherine the Great by Iris Noble
Messner Biography
♦ Lenin: The Man Who Made a Revolution by I.E. Levine
Messner Biography
♥ Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott
Makers of History Series
♥ Peter the Great by Nina Brown Baker
♦ Stormy Victory: The Story of Tchaikovsky by Claire Lee Purdy
Messner Biography
♦ Stravinsky by Percy M. Young
Masters of Music Series
♦ Tchaikovsky by Percy M. Young
Master Musicians Series
♦ $ Trotsky: World Revolutionary by Jules Archer
Messner Biography
DELPHIAN COURSE
Vol. 9: 477-521 Russian Fiction/Writers