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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... »
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... »