St Petersburg
A Russian emigre draws a panoramic view of the cosmopolitan culture that thrived over three centuries in Russia's Gateway to the West, producing such figures... »

Magical Chorus
A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn. Vintage Vintage. From the reign of Tsar Nicholas II to the brutal cult of Stalin to the... »

The Magical Chorus
A History of Russian Culture from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn »

Shostakovich And Stalin
'Music illuminates a person and provides him with his last hope; even Stalin, a butcher, knew that'. So said the Russian composer, Shostakovich, who spent hi... »

Conversations with Joseph Brodsky
A Poets Journey Through the Twentieth Century »

Romanov Riches
Russian Writers and Artists Under the Tsars. Analyzes the Russian royal family's distorted relationship with art... »

Testimony
The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich. With the composer's consent, the manuscript was smuggled out of Soviet... »