An account of the history of Siberia describes the actions of the rulers, statesmen explorers, and convicts whose destinies were shaped there and chronicles the human depravity that existed there for four centuries

A history of the city of St. Petersburg documents Peter the Great's building of a new capital in the Neva River delta; its unlikely rise to the political, cultural, and economic center of the empire; and the leaders, builders, soldiers, and statesmen who contributed to its creation. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Explores the social and political aspects of Russian art in a saga that spans Byzantine Christianity, the czarist splendor, the return of brutalized exiles to their homelands, and the artists who captured these moments

Discusses the brutal Russian Civil War, which, after World War I, claimed more than twenty million lives, involved fourteen other nations, including the United States, and brought Lenin to power

Based on rare documents and eyewitness information, this book dramatically recounts the critical years of Russia's defeat in World War I, the abdication of the Romanovs, and the doomed experiment with democracy

Product Description: The Great Reforms of the 1860s marked the broadest attempt at social and economic renovation to occur in Russia between the death of Peter the Great in 1725 and the Revolution of 1905. In just more than a decade, imperial reform acts freed Russia's serfs, restructured her courts, established institutions of local self-government in parts of the empire, altered the constraints that censorship imposed on the press, and transformed Russia's vast serf armed forces into a citizen army in which men from all classes bore equal responsibility for military service...read more

Surveys five hundred years of Russian arts and crafts

Traces the history of the Romanov dynasty in Russia from the 1613 accession to the throne of Michael Feodorovich Romanov to the deaths of the last Romanovs during the Russian Revolution