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Suggested Reading
A selection of books on the Hermitage museum, art & architecture, history, biographies, and classics to give you some reading suggestions:
HERMITAGE
Born out of Catherine the Great's private art collection, the Hermitage is one of the world's great museums. This beautiful book, featuring 80 colour illustrations, highlights some of its best-known pieces.
This compact history of one of the world's great museums chronicles its origins from a fashionable pavilion where Catherine the Great hung her paintings to the revered institution that it is today. While including vast amounts of history, this riveting story also includes considerable doses of intrigue, gluttony and heroism.
A spirited novel of ideas set in modern and 18th-century St. Petersburg.
This volume includes 350 full-color reproductions of masterworks from Imperial Russia. Neverov, curator at St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum, follows the trail of rich travelers who brought these pieces back to St. Petersburg, providing eloquent details about how The Hermitage and other institutions came to hold so many of the world's masterpieces.
ART, DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE
An elegantly written introduction to the art and architecture of Russia.
The history of Russia as reflected in its sumptuous art and architecture.
This visual tour of St. Petersburg's fine attractions reveals interiors from all periods of its history, from lesser-known sites such as the Russian National Library to those which have received more attention. This lavish title will delight both fans of Russian history and students of interior design.
HISTORY
A very readable condensed history of Russia's multiple transformations from her illiterate, pagan, Slavic roots to multi-ethnic empire. This well known scholar summarizes the tragic history of Russia from the invasions of the Tartars, Napoleon, and Germans to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A renowned historian explores Russia's people and empire under the czars.
Profiles of the city's artists and writers over the last 300 years.
An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution by an American journalist.
A history of Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union.
Massie pays careful attention to telling details as well as to the larger movements in pre-Revolutionary Russian art, literature and daily life in this rewarding, affectionate overview of 19th-century palaces, courts and culture.
A lively and long cultural history of Russia.
A fantasically interesting, useful survey of the history of Russia in maps.
BIOGRAPHIES
A Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling history of the great Westernizer of Russia. Massie portrays a giant of history on the monumental canvas of Europe as he transforms Russia from backwater tsardom to major empire.
One of the world's best biographers paints an unforgettable portrait of Catherine.
A lovingly produced visual and textual history of the last of the Romanovs.
The ground-breaking autobiography of Vladimir Nabokov.
CLASSICS
Dostoevsky's thriller of murder and redemption set in St. Petersburg and redolent of its atmosphere. A cornerstone of Russian literature, and one of the greatest detective stories ever told.
A broad selection of Russian literary masterpieces.
This novel documents the horrors of Russia's prison system under communism.
A modern classic, this novel depicts the city of St. Petersburg in 1905.
OTHER
A compact visual guide with excellent local maps and site plans.