Sadko, near the Maryinsky Theater, specializes in Russian food. Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K.

Caravan has a huge fire pit in the center, specializes in Caucasian food, and has a life-sized stuffed camel in the corner.

You can sign up for tastings and the food is excellent. The Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs returns with another masterpiece of narrative biography, the extraordinary story of an obscure German princess who became one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in history. Before that, one of the current, splendid Swedish thrillers by Henning Mankell or Hakan Nesser.īonus! Four of Robert Massie’s favorite restaurant-cafes in St. and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books.

What book or books do you have with you to pass the time?Īt the moment, I carry whichever of the twenty superb Patrick O’Brian novels of the British navy in the Napoleonic wars I happen to be re-reading. : Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (9780679456728) by Massie, Robert K. Massie, The Winter Palace by Eva Stachniak, Catherine the Gre.

What was the most surprising thing about Russia?įor me, the most astonishing moment I have had in Russia was when I walked into Red Square in Moscow in the early 1990s, looked up, and saw the white, blue, and red banner of Imperial Russia, the flag created by Peter the Great, flying over the Kremlin where the red hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union had been for more than seventy years. Books shelved as catherine-the-great: Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K.

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