Russian Life Store

 How does one begin to get a handle on the world's largest country? A font of world culture... Driver of world history... Home to Baba Yaga and Baikal... to the inventors of vodka, television and the theremin... This colorful, illustrated guide will get you started...

 

“To Russian literature, the Caucasus is a place of adventure... a wild, untamed region where those spoiled by civilization collide with virginal nature, with people who live simple, self-reliant lives... it is a territory of freedom, meaning free will... a place where poets and writers have found shelter...” (From the Editor’s Introduction)

 

Every language has concepts, ideas, words and idioms that are nearly impossible to translate into another language. This new book looks at nearly 100 such Russian words and offers paths to their understanding and translation by way of examples from literature and everyday life.

These 4x6 inch postcards feature eight different pictures from our 2007 and 2008 wall calendars and our house archive (see the "more info" page for thumbnails of all the cards). 

Recent changes to Russia's internal borders prompted us to do the first complete reworking of this map since its original publication in 1996. It makes it quite possibly the only accurate map of Russia today!

The Beauty Hunter • Soviet Karelia • The Kitchen Debate • Journalist Non Grata • Romanov Worship • Salted Mushrooms • Nixon v. Khrushchev • Alexander Godunov • Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact • Socialist Realism • Gogolisms