Russia--business survival guide

Travel

Richardson, Paul E. (Ed. )

Specialty Travel

Russian Information Services

Every language has concepts, ideas, words and idioms that are nearly impossible to translate into another language. A key to understanding another language, another culture, is figuring out what cannot be known, but only felt. This new book looks at nearly 100 difficult-to-grasp Russian words and offers paths to their understanding and translation by way of examples from literature and everyday life. Words and concepts are introduced with dictionary definitions, then elucidated with citations from literature, speech and prose, helping the student of Russian comprehend the word/concept in context. Added bonus: Includes an extensive chart of Old Russian Measurements you may meet in literature from the common arshin, to the less known charka with modern conversions. An invaluable reference tool.

93 Untranslatable Russian Words

Education & Teaching

Gogolitsyna, Natalia

Schools & Teaching

Russia Survival Guide: Business and Travel

Richardson, Paul E.

Asia

Business Russian (English and Russian Edition)

Aleksandroff, Svetlana

Reference

The definitive guide to independent travel and doing business in Russia. Now in its seventh edition, it includes loads of reference information, basic contact info (hotels, restaurants, hospitals, etc.) for over 80 Russian cities, plus information on everything from crime to communication to etiquette to in-country travel to business laws. Over 50,000 copies sold!

Russia Survival Guide: The Definitive Guide to Doing Business and Traveling in Russia

The Little Humpbacked Horse is a beloved Russian classic, written in the 1830s. It is the tale of a resourceful Russian peasant, Vanya, and his miracle-working horse, who together undergo various trials, exploits and adventures at the whim of a laughable tsar (indeed, this portrayal of the tsar got the book banned for 20 years in the nineteenth century). It is a tale of love and bravery, fantasy and humor, and it is all told in beautiful, rich, narrative poetry. Presented in our popular bilingual format (accented Russian on the left page, matching English on the right), with a stellar literary translation by Lydia Stone, this is a volume to cherish and share.

The Little Humpbacked Horse: Bilingual ~ Russian and English

Children's Books

Yershov, Pyotr

Action & Adventure

The definitive guide to independent travel and doing business in Russia. Now in its seventh edition, it includes loads of reference information, basic contact info (hotels, restaurants, hospitals, etc.) for over 80 Russian cities, plus information on everything from crime to communication to etiquette to in-country travel to business laws. Over 50,000 copies sold!

Paul E. Richardson

The most up-to-date directory for Moscow available. This will serve Western business people and independent travelers is the most current city guide to the ever-changing Moscow.

Where in Moscow: The Ultimate Directory, Including Maps, Telephone Listings, and Essential Goods and Services

Catalogs & Directories

Russia Survival Guide

Bears in the Caviar is a hilarious and insightful memoir by a diplomat who was “present at the creation” of US-Soviet relations. Charles Thayer headed off to Russia in 1933, calculating that if he could just learn Russian and be on the spot when the US and USSR established relations, he could make himself indispensable and start a career in the foreign service. Remarkably, he pulled it of. This was but the first in a string of daring moves that kept Thayer in the thick of all things Russian for the next two decades. Architect of the infamous party that Mikhail Bulgakov used to imagine his famous ball scene in Master and Margarita, Senior Polo Instructor to the Red Army, translator to ambassadors, sparring partner for Vyshinsky, drinking partner of Budyonny, nemesis of the KGB, and, oh yes, Third Secretary in the Foreign Service, Charles Thayer was a boundlessly resourceful, creative and fun-loving public servant. In this memoir (out of print for half a century), he offers an unparalleled look behind the scenes of diplomatic life in Russia (and Germany, Iran and Afghanistan) before and during World War II. For anyone with even a passing interest in US-Russian history, this is a priceless memoir to read and savor.

Bears in the Caviar

Biographies & Memoirs

Thayer, Charles W.

Historical

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