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, Latvia 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) Orlando Figes. Natasha’s Dance, A Cultural History of Russia. 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. Catherine the Great. Random House, 1994. A Latvian correspondent for the London 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 Montefiore.Stalin, The Court of the Red Tsar. Item RUS471) Alfred Knopf, 2005. An enthralling, comprehensive portrait of Joseph Stalin 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 Soviet Union, 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.