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Memoirs of Kyra Petrovskaya, a Russian-American author, actress and a sniper during Siege of Leningrad.
A Russian actress and nurse tells of her experience caring for an orphan boy during part of the three-year siege of Leningrad.
Treasury of easy-to-follow recipes for over 200 mouthwatering traditional dishes: borsch, shashlik of salmon, potato kotlety, pirozhki, blini, many more. Definition of terms.
Recounts the experiences of an aspiring young actress growing up in Leningrad in the 1930's.
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Chronicles the three year siege of Leningrad during World War II, focusing on the city's inhabitants, the inner workings of the Communist Party and secret police, and the people's will to survive.
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MEMOIRS OF A PIANO is a whimsical chronicle of the vicissitudes of fortune of a French piano during more than a century of historical upheavals. In its own voice Piano regales us with many stories, thus joining some of its famous predecessors such as Voltaire’s bed or Jonathan Swift’s tub, or even Gogol’s nose and Kafka’s cockroach, who all talked! And what stories piano tells! It tells us how it had almost ended up on the barricades during the French Commune. It describes Franz Liszt who had used it at a concert. It meets young prodigy Claude Debussy and travels with him to Russia where it becomes a house piano of the wealthy patroness of Tchaikovsky. Fate interferes with piano’s ...