SUGGESTED READING

BALTIC We are pleased to bring you reading materials to support your onboard experience and complement your moments ashore. The Smithsonian Collection by Smithsonian Journeys is an engaging enrichment program led by a wide range of experts who are eager to share their first-hand knowledge and expertise. As part of the program, Smithsonian Journeys and our Smithsonian Journeys Experts are pleased to share the below reading lists.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION These 4 items are available as a set for $93 including shipping, 15% Andrejs Plakans. A Concise History of the Baltic States. off the retail price (Item EXBLT75). Any additional books ordered Cambridge University Press, 2011. Plakans traces the history will be shipped free of charge. See page 4 for ordering details. of Estonia, and Lithuania from ninth-century tribal beginnings to the present status as three thriving and separate nation states, focusing particularly on the region’s Michael North. The Baltic, A History. Harvard University Press, complex 20thcentury history, culminating in the 2015. In his erudite history of the “Nordic Mediterranean,” reestablishment of national sovereignty. (PAPER, 472 North covers over 1,000 years of trade, politics, architecture, Pp., $29.99, Item BLT50) cultural exchange and conflict in the Baltic. His main point: the Baltic’s coastal nations have always been an interconnected economic unit. (HARD COVER, 380 Pp., $39.95, Item BLT59) . Natasha’s Dance, A Cultural History of . Picador USA, 2003. In this lively cultural history, Figes looks at both the great works by Russian masters and longstanding Eyewitness Guides. Eyewitness Guide St. Petersburg. DK folk traditions. The title is drawn from a scene of Tolstoy’s War Publishing, 2015. With excellent local maps and site plans, and Peace in which a European-educated countess performs this outstanding visual guide introduces the culture, history a peasant dance. (PAPER, 768 Pp., $25.00, Item RUS180) and attractions of St. Petersburg. (PAPER, 264 Pp., $25.00, Item RUS87) John Haywood. Penguin Historical Atlas of the Vikings. Penguin Putnam, 1995. This history of the Vikings tells their story through a series of innovative maps and excellent Anne Vipond. Northern Europe by Cruise Ship. Ocean photographs. It traces the routes of 9th-century Viking Cruise Guides, 2015. This excellent guide to cruises and merchants and explorers throughout Europe and the New ports from Scandinavia and the Baltic to the British Isles, World. (PAPER, 144 Pp., $22.00, Item VIK02) Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin includes city maps, excursions, color photographs and a pull-out map of Northern Europe. (PAPER, 368 Pp., $21.95, Item EUR364) Solomon Volkov, Antonina Bouis. St. Petersburg, A Cultural History. Free Press, 1995. This wonderfully written summary of art, music, theater and literature, written by a native Freytag & Berndt. Baltic Sea States Map. Freytag & Berndt, historian and musician, includes profiles of the city’s artists 2008. This detailed (1:800,000), double-sided map covers and writers over the last 300 years. (PAPER, 598 Pp., the entire Baltic region from Copenhagen across to Gdansk, $38.95, Item RUS72) St. Petersburg, Oslo and Stockholm. (MAP, Pp., $14.95, Item BLT38) W. Bruce Lincoln. Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia. Perseus, 2002. A wonderfully written, informative portrait of St. Petersburg, focusing on the city’s development in the 18th and 19th centuries as Russia’s “window on the West.” Highly recommended for travelers with an interest in the character and significance of the city MAPS & GUIDEBOOKS and its monuments. (PAPER, 432 Pp., $19.95, Item RUS128)

Elaine Blaire. Literary St. Petersburg, A Guide to the City Michael Booth. The Almost Nearly Perfect People, Behind and Its Writers. Little Bookroom, 2007. Blaire shows St. the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia. Picador USA, 2016. Petersburg through the words, museums and haunts of 15 Guardian journalist Booth writes with laugh-out-loud humor writers, including Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and and brutal candor about the Scandinavians, mixing history Nabokov. (PAPER, 137 Pp., $16.95, Item RUS406) and his own experiences in Nordic regions in this searing cultural portrait. (PAPER, 400 Pp., $17.00, Item SCN83) BALTIC 1 HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Continued Continued

Anatol Lieven. The Baltic Revolution. Yale University Press, Robert K. Massie. . Random House, 1994. A Latvian correspondent for the Times, Lieven 2012. Eager readers of Massie’s Nicholas and Alexandra weaves history, interviews and analysis into a vivid cultural or the Pulitzer Prize-winning Peter the Great will not be portrait of post-Glasnost Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. disappointed by this latest, an old-fashioned tale of politics, (PAPER, 454 Pp., $47.00, Item BLT02) power and 18th-century Europe, drawing effectively from the ambitious Catherine’s own memoirs. (PAPER, 625 Pp., $20.00, Item RUS470) Eric Christiansen. The Northern Crusades. Viking, 1998. The wilder-than-fiction story of the 13th- to 15th-century Isabel De Madariaga. Catherine the Great, A Short History. conquest and conversion of the pagan tribes of the Baltic Yale University Press, 2002. A brief survey of the reign of coasts by knights of the Teutonic Order. (PAPER, 320 Pp., Catherine the Great that nicely balances biography with $18.00, Item BLT14) descriptions of the economic, political and social life of the period. (PAPER, 240 Pp., $14.95, Item RUS105)

Yves Cohat. The Vikings, Lords of the Seas. Thames & Hudson UK, 2010. An indispensable reference that fits in your pocket, this slim Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin. Letters on volume is packed with maps, archival photographs and illustrations. Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Lightning Source, 2005. (PAPER, 175 Pp., $15.95, Item VIK01) Groundbreaking feminist Wollstonecraft records her observations of a late 18th-century journey through Scandinavia in this small masterpiece, rich in detail of people and place. (PAPER, 129 Pp., $16.95, Item SCN04) William Fitzhugh (Editor), Elisabeth Ward (Editor). Vikings, The North Atlantic Saga. Smithsonian Institution Czeslaw Milosz. Native Realm, A Search for Self-Definition. Press, 2000. An extensively illustrated volume of Viking Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002. The great Lithuanian-born culture, history and exploration that focuses especially on Polish poet and Nobel laureate Milosz traces much of 20th- voyages to North America. Published in conjunction with century European history in this tale of his own life, from a Smithsonian exhibit, it features essays and 400 color his early years in Vilnius to the unimaginable horrors of photographs. (PAPER, 432 Pp., $34.95, Item VIK11) Nazioccupied Warsaw through to the 1950s. (PAPER, 300 Pp., $16.00, Item EUR437)

Robert Massie. Peter the Great, His Life and World. Random House, 2011. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Massie portrays the giant of history who transformed Russia from ARCHAEOLOGY, ART & ARCHITECTURE backwater tsardom into a major empire. (PAPER, 914 Pp., $21.00, Item RUS48) Alain Erlande-Brandenburg. The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages. Thames & Hudson UK, 2010. This pocket-size encyclopedia of the art, architecture and culture of the Vladimir Nabokov. Speak, Memory. Vintage Books, 1989. Middle Ages features hundreds of drawings, color Nabokov’s richly imagined memoir wonderfully evokes illustrations and a brief chronology. (PAPER, 175 Pp., cultural life among the well-to-do in turn-of-the-century $15.95, Item MED07) St. Petersburg. Nabokov called his childhood home, now a museum off St Isaac’s Square, “the only house in the Olegs Yakovlevichs Neverov. The Hermitage Collections. Rizzoli world.” (PAPER, 316 Pp., $16.00, Item RUS28) International, 2010. This sumptous visual survey celebrates the museum, its history and collections. (BOXED, 640 Pp., $95.00, Simon Sebag .Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar. Item RUS471) Alfred Knopf, 2005. An enthralling, comprehensive portrait of and his court, drawing on archival material and interviews with surviving figures. At 800 pages, there is ample room for personal and anecdotal information about Stalin. (PAPER, 848 Pp., $22.00, Item RUS228)

Rich Cohen. The Avengers, A Jewish War Story. Vintage TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR Books, 2000. The riveting tale of how three kids from the Jewish ghetto in Vilna go on to fight Germans and David Howarth. We Die Alone. Lyons Press, 2007. eventually wind up in a Kibbutz north of Tel Aviv. (PAPER, Howarth’s riveting account of determination and valor in 262 Pp., $16.00, Item BLT16) Nazi-occupied Norway follows Jan Baalrud’s extraordinary escape by ski across the Lyngen Alps. (PAPER, 208 Pp., $16.95, Item NOR14)

BALTIC 2 LITERATURE LITERATURE Continued Kathryn Harrison. Enchantments. Random House, 2013. Harrison sets her enthralling novel in St. Petersburg in 1917 Pers Anders Fogelstrom. Stockholm, City of My Dreams. as the Romanov’s topple, telling her tale from the point of Penfield Press, 2000. Young Henning Nilsson arrives in view of Rasputin’s daughters. (PAPER, 329 Pp., $15.00, Stockholm on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, eager Item RUS478) for success, love and a fully experienced life in this Swedish classic of historical realist fiction, happily now available in an English translation. (PAPER, 332 Pp., $21.95, Item SWE22) Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin, Vladimir Nabokov (Translator). Eugene Onegin, A Novel in Verse. Bollingen Denise Neuhaus. The Christening. Lightning Source, 2002. Foundation, 2001. In this translation of Pushkin’s epic poem This accomplished novel, set against a backdrop of the last set in 19th-century Russia, the great novelist Nabokov days of the , follows three Estonian women in brings the spark of Pushkin’s original words to life. (PAPER, Tallinn and Stockholm. (PAPER, 296 Pp., $16.95, 362 Pp., $31.95, Item RUS290) Item BLT25)

Knut Hamsun. Growth of the Soil. Penguin, 2007. The epic tale of a homesteader in the mountainous Norwegian Henning Mankell. The Dogs of Riga. Vintage Books, 2004. interior, which helped win Hamsun a Nobel Prize in 1920. Swedish detective Kurt Wallander travels from Ystad to (PAPER, 352 Pp., $16.00, Item NOR36) Latvia on the shadowy trail of a grisly murder in this second book, steeped in Baltic ambiance. (PAPER, 336 Pp., $15.00, Item BLT24)

Joseph Brodsky. Less Than One, Selected Essays. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987. A collection of Brodsky’s personal Stieg Larsson. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest. Alfred essays and literary criticism. Particularly insightful is Knopf, 2010. This final installment of the gripping trilogy that “Guide to a Renamed City,” a beautiful meditation on began with The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (SWE54) and The St. Petersburg (a.k.a Leningrad) and its multiple historical Girl Who Played With Fire (SWE53) finds computer hacker identities. (PAPER, 448 Pp., $21.00, Item RUS382) heroine Lisbeth Salander teaming up with journalist Mikael Blomkvist to uncover a conspiracy involving a secret Swedish Padraic Colum, Willy Pogany (Illustrator). Nordic Gods and security force. (HARD COVER, 602 Pp., $27.95, Item SWE62) Heroes. Dover Publications, 1996. Column’s classic retelling of the dramatic tales of the Norse gods and goddesses, Stieg Larsson. The Girl Who Played With Fire. Alfred Knopf, originally published in 1928. With 40 illustrations. 2010. Larrson’s thrilling sequel to The Girl With the Dragon (PAPER, 292 Pp., $11.95, Item SCN39) Tattoo (SWE54) follows a computer hacker and a journalist as they’re drawn into a murder investigation involving a sex-trafficking ring in Stockholm. (PAPER, 608 Pp., $16.95, Peter Asbjornsen. Norwegian Folk Tales. Pantheon Books, Item SWE53) 1982. This rich collection of stories, interpreted by a leading scholar on ancient traditions and tales, will delight both Stieg Larsson. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Alfred adults and children. (PAPER, 188 Pp., $15.95, Item Knopf, 2009. Larsson combines murder mystery, family NOR06) saga, love story and financial intrigue into a complex and atmospheric novel set in Stockholm and the snowy landscapes of northern Sweden. (PAPER, 480 Pp., $16.95, Per Petterson. Out Stealing Horses. Picador USA, 2008. A Item SWE54) deliberate and astonishing novel. Looking back on his early childhood in rural Norway, Trond Sander fixates on a fateful Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot. Vintage Books, 2003. A summer. In 1948, after the death of a child, his father’s decision to masterpiece of Russian fiction, Dostoevsky’s great novel abandon the family and the crippling guilt of his best friend, the portrays a man of pure innocence, Prince Myshkin, who course of Sander’s life would be altered forever. (PAPER, 258 Pp., finds himself a St. Petersburg amongst a society obsessed $16.00, Item NOR66) with power, money and manipulation. (PAPER, 656 Pp., $16.95, Item RUS578) Edward Rutherfurd. Russka. Ballantine Books, 2005. In this absorbing, complex novel Rutherfurd transforms Russian history into an epic saga. The bestseller follows the fate of interconnected families over 800 years. Catherine the Great, Tolstoy, Pushkin and Rasputin all make appearances. (PAPER, 946 Pp., $19.00, Item RUS175)

Carolyn G. Hart. Set Sail for Murder. Avon Books, 2008. Retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O’ Dwyer Collins, Henrie O to her friends, joins her dear old friend Jimmy Lennox on a Baltic cruise in this seventh installment in the cozy series. (PAPER, 311 Pp., $6.99, Item BLT42)

BALTIC 3 LITERATURE Continued

Jesse Byock (Translator). The Saga of the Volsungs. University Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace. Vintage Books, 2008. Richard of California Press, 2012. A piece full of traditional lore, including Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky restore Tolstoy’s texture and runic knowledge, jealousies of princes, betrayals, unrequited rhythm for English speakers in this major new translation of his love, the vengeance of a Barbarian queen, the greed of Attila masterpiece. They’ve won three PEN awards and acclimation the Hun and the mythic deeds of a dragon-slayer. for translations that also include Gogol, Dostoyevsky and (PAPER, 145 Pp., $21.95, Item SCN05) Bulgakov. (PAPER, 1296 Pp., $20.00, Item RUS391)

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