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She turned into a frog into a lizard into all kinds of other reptiles & then into a spindle. In these tales young women go on long & difficult quests wicked stepmothers turn children into geese & tsars ask dangerous riddles with help or hindrance from magical dolls cannibal witches talking skulls stolen wives & brothers disguised as wise birds. Half the tales here are true oral tales collected by folklorists during the last two centuries while the others are reworking of oral tales by four great Russian writers: Alexander Pushkin Nadezhda Teffi Pavel Bazhov & Andrey Platonov. In his introduction to these new translations Robert Chandler writes about the primitive magic inherent in these tales & the taboos around them while in the afterword Sibelan Forrester discusses the witch Baba Yaga. This edition also

Includes:: an appendix bibliography & notes. This is translated by Robert Chandler & Elizabeth Chandler with Sibelan Forrester Anna Gunin & Olga Meerson.

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Get More From Your Tripwith easy-to-find phrases for every travel situation: Basics Practical Social Safe Travel Food Plus: Order the right meal with our menu decoder. Never get stuck for words with our 3500-word two-way dictionary. We make language easy with shortcuts key phrases & common Q& As. Feel at ease with essential tips on culture & manners.25+ Years Lonely Planet Phrasebooks have been connecting travelers & locals for over a quarter of a century.120+ Languages Our phrasebooks & mobile apps cover more than any other publisher. ...

Traveling in a foreign country such as Russia suddenly becomes a lot more exciting when you can engage in elegant small talk with the locals. Russian Phrases For Dummies is your handy guide to everyday words & phrases you can start using immediately to make your visit more rewarding & a whole lot easier. This user-friendly phrasebook will jump-start your comprehension & have you speaking basic Russian in no time. Its quick-&-easy approach gives you language fundamentals up front the Words to Know section helps you find the right word fast & the easy-to-use pronunciation key helps other people understand what youre trying to say. Youll learn how to: Get directions shop & eat out Talk numbers dates & time Chat about family & work Discuss sports & the weather Deal with problems & emergencies Pronounce familiar English words & phrases in Russian & English Beware of words that sound to English but dont mean the same thing Read signs that use the Russian alphabet Follow the conventions of Russian pronunciation Use basic Russian grammar correctly Keep ten commonly used Russian phrases on the tip of your tongue Use basic telephone vocabulary & send letters emails & faxes Dont have time to study the language before you get to Russia? No worries. Just flip through Russian Phrases For Dummies find the section that fits your needs & start talking! ...

This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events & developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 & 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole
- on different classes ethnic groups the army men & women youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure of domination was replaced by another. The book registers the primacy of politics but situates political developments firmly in the context of massive economic social & cultural change. Since the fall of Communism there has been much reflection on the significance of the Russian Revolution. The book rejects the currently influential liberal interpretation of the revolution in favour of one that sees it as rooted in the contradictions of a backward society which sought modernization & enlightenment & ended in political tyranny.
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2005 marks the centenary of Russias first revolution
- an unplanned spontaneous rejection of Tsarist rule that was a response to
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Peter the Great created a navy from nothing but it challenged & soon surpassed Sweden as the Baltic naval power while in the Black Sea it became an essential tool in driving back the Ottoman Turks from the heartland of Europe. In battle it was surprisingly successful & at times in the eighteenth century was the third largest navy in the world
- yet its history & especially its ships are virtually unrecorded in the West. This major new reference work handsomely fills this gap with a complete & comprehensive list of the fleet with technical detail & career highlights for every ship down to small craft. However because the subject is so little recorded in English the book also provides substantial background material on the organisation & administration of the navy its weapons personnel & shipbuilding facilities as well as an outline of Russias naval campaigns down to the clash with Britain & France known as the Crimean War. Illustrated with plans paintings & prints rarely seen outside Russia it is authoritative reliable & comprehensive the culmination of a long collaboration between a Russian naval historian & an American ship enthusiast.E DUARD SOZAEV is an established Russian naval historian with a number of books to his credit. JOHN TREDREA his translator editor & long-term collaborator is an American ship enthusiast with a life-long interest in the Russian navy.
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Praise for Russian Winter. An elegant compelling puzzle of family memory & solitude that brings to life modern day Boston & postwar Russia through a profound love story. Graceful moving & unexpected
- Matthew Pearl author of The Dante Club. A tender & moving debut novel
- Candis Magazine. An impressive debut: intelligent moving & flitting easily between the artistic salons of Soviet Russia & the Boston of today
- Guardian. A memorable love story cleverly disguised as historical fiction
- Red Magazine. Part romance part mystery this elegant debut captures the danger
- & refuge
- of love in Stalins era
- Good Housekeeping.






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This up-to-date dictionary is a handy tool for both native English & Russian speakers who wish to cross the linguistic barrier. It can be used to supplement studies for travel of for commercial purposes or simply as an introduction to a Russian language. ...

In this vast & gorgeous tapestry of a novel serf & master Cossack & tsar priest & Jew are brought together in a family saga which unrolls through centuries of history to reveal that most impenetrable & mysterious of lands
- Russia. Through the life of a little town east of Moscow in the Russian heartland Edward Rutherfurd creates a sweeping family saga from the baffling contradictions of Russia's culture & her peoples
- bleak yet exotic brutal but romantic land of ritual yet riddled with superstitious fears. From Russia's dawn & the cruel Tatar invasions to Ivan the Terrible & the wild Cossacks from Peter Catherine & the days of War & Peace to the drama of the Revolution & the extraordinary events of today
- here is Russia's story in a spellbinding novel
- history recreated with breathtaking detail & passion.



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