MARGIE’S RUSSIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY
This is a
purely personal list of books about Russia that I have read in my journey to
learn more about this fascinating country.
I hope you enjoy exploring them as much as I have.
GENERAL HISTORY AND
GEOGRAPHY
The Court of the Last Tsar: Pomp, Power, and Pageantry in the Reign of
Nicholas II, by Greg King. Hoboken,
N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006.
The Golden Ring, edited by Irina Lvova and Irina
Kharitonova. St. Petersburg,
Russia: P-2 Art Publishers, 2007.
Moscow, edited by I. Lvova. St. Petersburg, Russia: P-2 Art Publishers, 2007.
Petrostate: Putin,
Power, and the New Russia, by Marshall I. Goldman. New York:
Oxford, 2008, 2010.
Rise of Russia, by Robert Wallace and the Editors of
Time-Life Books. Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1967. (Great Ages of Man: A History of the World’s Cultures.)
Russia, edited by Irina Lvova and Irina
Kharitonova. St. Petersburg,
Russia: P-2 Art Publishers, 2007.
Russia: people and
empire, by Geoffrey Hosking.
Cambridge, Ma.: Harvard
University Press, 1997.
Russian Tsars: the
Rurikids, the Romanovs, edited by Irina haritonova and Irina Lvova. St. Petersburg, Russia: Ivan Fiodorov Art Publishers, 2005.
The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia’s Drift to Revolution 1825-1917,
by Edward Crankshaw. Copyright 1976 by
Edward Crankshaw; First Da Capo Press Edition 2000.
Tomsk. [I
purchased this book in Tomsk; all the bibliographic information is in Russian]
BIOGRAPHY AND
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Alexandra: the
last tsarina, by Carolly Erickson.
New York: St. Martin’s Press,
2001.
Anastasia: the
lost princess, by James Blair Lovell.
Washington, D.C.: Regnery
Gateway, 1991. [This book was written
before the recovery of the Royal Family’s remains and identifies Anna Anderson
as Anastasia.]
Behind the Veil at the Russian Court, by Paul Vasili
[Princess Catherine Radziwill].
London: Cassell and Company,
Ltd., 1914; reprinted by Elibron Classics, Adamant Media Corporation, 2005.
The Boy from Baby House 10: From the Nightmare of A Russian Orphanage to
a New Life in America, by Alan Philps and John Lahutsky. New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 2009.
Ella: princess,
saint & martyrby Christopher Warwick.
Chichester, West Sussex, England:
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2006.
The Escape of Alexei, son of Tsar Nicholas II: what happened the night the Romanov family
was executed, by Vadim Petrov, Igor Lysenho and Georgy Egorov. New York:
Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1998.
[This book was written before the recovery of the Royal Family’s remains
and identifies Vasily Filatov as the Tsarevich Alexei.]
The Fate of the Romanovs, by Greg King and Penny
Wilson. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003.
The Flight of the Romanovs: a family saga, by John Curtis Perry and
Constantine Pleshakov. New York: Basic Books, 1999.
Great Catherine:
the life of Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, by Carolly
Erickson. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1994.
The Gulag Archipelago:
an experiment in literary investigation, by Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn. Abridged; authorized by
the author. New York: HarperCollins, 1985.
Journey into the Whirlwind, by Eugenia Semyonovna
Ginzburg. Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori Editors, 1967; English
translation c.1967 by Harcourt, Inc.
King, Kaiser, Tsar:
three royal cousins who led the world to war, by Catrine Clay. New York:
Walker Publishing Co., 2006
The Last Days of the Romanovs: tragedy at Ekaterinburg, by Helen
Rappaport. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2008.
The Last Tsar, by Larissa Yermilova. Worldwide, USA: Confidential Concepts, 1996.
The Last Tsar: the
life and death of Nicholas II, by Edvard Radzinsky. New York:
Anchor Books Doubleday, 1992; English translation by Marian Schwarz
c.1992.
A Lifelong Passion:
Nicholas & Alexandra, their own story, by Andrei Maylunas and
Sergei Mironenko. New York: Doubleday, 1996.
Lost Splendor: the
amazing memoir of the man who killed Rasputin, by Prince Felix
Youssoupoff. New York: Helen Marx Books, 2003; first published New
York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons,, 1953.
Michael and Natasha:
the life and love of Michael II, the last of the Romaov tsars, by
Rosemary and Donald Crawford. New
York: Avon Books, 1997.
The Murder of the Romanovs, by Andrew Cook. Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing Plc, 2010.
Nicholas II:
twilight of the empire, by Dominic Lieven. New York:
St. Martin’s Griffin, c. 1993.
“The most intelligent, readable, and well-informed biography for many
years to come.” – The Sunday Telegraph.
Nicholas and Alexandra:
At Home with the Last Tsar and His Family: Treasures from the Alexander Palace, edited by Marilyn Pfeifer
Sweeney. Washington, D.C.: American-Russian Cultural Cooperation
Foundation, 2004.
Once a Grand Duchess:
Xenia, sister of Nicholas II, by John Van Der Kiste & Coryne
Hall. Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Publishing Limited, 2002.
P. A. Stolypin:
the Search for Stability in Late Imperial Russia, by Abraham
Ascher. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press, 2001.
Peter the Great:
his life and world, by Robert K. Massie. New York:
Ballantine Books, 1980. “The
Pulitzer Prize-winning national bestseller, an NBC Television mini-series.”
Princess Victoria Melita, by John Van Der Kiste. Gloucestershire, England: Sutton Publishing Limited, 1991.
Putin’s Russia, by Lilia Shevtsova. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace,
2003.
The Rasputin File, by Edvard Radzinsky. New York:
Anchor Books, 2000.
A Romanov Fantasy:
life at the court of Anna Anderson, by Frances Welch. New York, London: W.W. Norton and Company, 2007.
The Romanovs: the
final chapter, by Robert K. Massie.
New York: Ballentine Books, 1995.
The Secret Plot to Save the Tsar: new truths behind the Romanov mystery, by
Shay McNeal. New York: Perenial (HarperCollins), 2003.
The Shaman’s Coat:
a native history of Siberia, by Anna Reid. New York:
Walker & Company, 2002.
Six Red Months in Russia:
an observer’s account of Russia before and during the Proletarian
Dictatorship, by Louise Bryant.
United Kingdom: Dodo Press,
reprint 2008.
The Days That Shook the World, by John Reed. New York:
Boni & Liveright, Inc., 1919; reprint by New York: Dover, 2006.
TRAVEL AND CULTURE
Eyewitness Travel:
Moscow, Bhristopher and Melanie Rice, main contributors. New York:
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 1998, 2007.
Frommer’s Moscow & St. Petersburg, 1st
edition by Angela Charlton. Hoboken,
N.J.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., 2006.
Mir Bam (Shalom to You). [Russian United Methodist Hymnal] New York:
Russian United Methodist Church, 2002.
Russian Cuisine, by Lydia Liakhovskaya. St. Petersburg: P-2 Art Publishers, 2000.
RUSSIAN LANGUAGE
201 Russian Verbs
fully conjugated in all the tenses, by Patricia Anne Davis. New York:
Barron’s Educational Series, 1968.
The Berlitz Self-Teacher:
Russian, by the Editorial Staff of the Berlitz Schools of Languages
of America, Inc. New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1951.
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Learning Russian, by
Christopher Froehlich. New York: Alpha Books, 2004.
Look and Learn Russian with pronunciation Guide, grammar
and vocabulary, by Aron Pressman. New
York: Dell Publishing, 1962.
Pimsleur Express:
Russian (CD & booklet).
New York: Simon & Schuster,
2003.
Pimsleur Russian I, 3d ed. (CDs) Concord, Ma.:
Simon & Schuster Studios, 2001.
Rosetta Stone Russian Levels 1, 2, and 3 (computer
program, audio CDs and booklet). Harrisonburg,
Va.: Rosetta Stone, 2007.
Russian at a Glance, by Thomas R. Beyer, Jr. 2d ed.
New York: Barron’s Educational
Series, Inc., 2001. [This is a great
little book to carry with you.]
Romanov’s Pocket Russian/English English/Russian
Dictionary with special emphasis on American English (Two Volumes in One), Part I by E. Wedel,
Part II by A.S. Romanov. New York: Pocket Books, 1964.
FICTION
Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy.
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Translated by Max Hayward and Manya
Harari. New York: Pantheon Books, 1958, 1986.
Evgeny Onegin, by A. C. Pushkin. Moscow:
N.A. Marchenko, 1993. [In
Russian.]
Generations of Winter, by Vassily Aksyonov. Translated from the Russian by John Glad and
Christopher Morris. New York: Random House, 1994. Translation c. 1994 by John Glad.
The Little Russian, by Susan Sherman. Berkeley, CA:
Counterpoint, 2012.
The Man from St. Petersburg, by Ken Follett. New York:
Penguin, 1982.
The Romanov Bride:
a novel, by Robert Alexander.
London: Penguin Books, 2008. [A biographical novel about the life and
death of Ella, Grand Duchess Elisavyeta.]
The Romanov Prophecy, by Steve Berry. New York:
Ballantine Books, 2004.
The Tsarina’s Daughter, by Carolly Erickson. New York:
St. Martin’s Press, 2008. [An
entertaining book, but it has nothing to do with historical fact.]
War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy.
The White Night of St.
Petersburg, by Prince Michael of Greece.
Translated from the French by Franklin Philip. New York,:
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2000.
FILMS AND TV
Anastasia, directed by
Anatole Litvak. Starring Ingrid Bergman
and Yul Brenner. Twentieth Century Fox,
1956. [A beautiful movie that won the
Academy Award in 1956, but it has little to do with historical fact.]
Anastasia: Dead or Alive?, a NOVA Production by WGBH/Boston Science
Unit, 1995.
Fiddler on the Roof. (I don’t have the bibliographic information
yet.) [In addition to the wonderful singing
and dancing, this movie gives some insight into the plight of Russian Jewish
peasants under the rule of Tsar Nicholas II in the early twentieth century.)
Nicholas & Alexandra: the tragic story of Russia’s last Czar and
his Czarina revealed. A Granite
Film/Granada Television Production in association with A&E Network,
produced by Dianne Nelmes et al. Granada
Telvision Ltd., 1994.
Nicholas and Alexandra,
directed by Franklin Schaffner. A
Horizon Film from Columbia Pictures, 1971.
War and Peace. [A classic starring Henry Fonda; I’ll add
bibliographic information soon.]
Note: I’m not even going to dignify the Disney
cartoon about the “lost princess” with a mention by name here.
