History Books

The first history of the epic defeat of Napoleon's empire told from the Russian perspective.

An epic new account of the conflict that reshaped Eastern Europe and set the stage for the rest of the twentieth century.

The Romanovs ruled a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?

First published in 1963, this unique and pioneering anthology contains over sixty selections from the finest of Russia’s medieval authors, much of the material published in this anthology has never before been available in English. 

A tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing.

Midwives of the Revolution examines the powerful contribution made by women to the overthrow of tsarism in 1917 and their importance in the formative years of communism in Russia.

Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is the untold story of how one man's harrowing journey in 1885 exposed the barbaric Siberian exile system that sent a million Russians into a vast prison without a roof.

A glimpse into the everyday life of a field scientist/conservationist, Jonathan C. Slaght testifies to the determination and creativity essential to scientific advancement and serves as reminder of the beauty, strength, and vulnerability of nature.

A travel guide through one of the best minds of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg’s journals are more tour de force than diaries, charting his poetry, political antics, and high-profile encounters behind the Iron Curtain at the height of the Cold War.

A harrowing account of how one of America's most Iconic television show was exported to Russia in the post-Soviet tumultuous 90s.

The Story of a Life beings from Paustovsky’s Ukrainian youth, as his family is destitute, to his time as a World War I paramedic , then a journalist during the Russia revolution, His prose are energetic and lyrical filled with love of the natural world

A vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine from celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein.