Full name: Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia

Author: Suzanne Massie Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Culture: Russia Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780964418417 096441841X

'Land of the Firebird' is a WONDERFUL and ENGAGING in-depth look of Russian history from 987-1917, spanning the ascension of Vlad and the Orthodox Church to right before the Revolution. With colorful prose Suzanne Massie details the variety of Russian existence--tsars and serfs and merchant-princes and babushkas--no stone is left uncovered as she cross-references nearly a thousands years, writing with equal consideration of art, poetry, country-life, court-life, politics and its myriad games, myths and legends, influence "outside the sphere." Similar books: Russia by Martin Sixsmith Empire of the Czar by Astolphe de Custine Russia and the Russians by Geoffrey Hosking The Shadow of the Winter Palace by Edward Crankshaw The Icon and the Axe by James H. Billington Former People by Douglas Smith Red Fortress by Catherine Merridale A History of Russia by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky Natasha's Dance by Orlando Figes The New Russians by Hedrick Smith Resurrection by David Remnick In War's Dark Shadow by W. Bruce Lincoln Russia and the Golden Horde by Charles J. Halperin Russians by Gregory Feifer Molotov's Magic Lantern by Rachel Polonsky The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest 1917: Lenin, Wilson, and the Birth of the New World Disorder by Arthur Herman The Main Enemy by Milton Bearden Stalin and His Hangmen by Donald Rayfield When Titans Clashed by David M. Glantz