A Traveller's Companion to Moscow.A Traveller's Companion To Moscow Laurence Kelly, editor Interlink INTERLINK - A commercial product comprising hardware and software for file transfer between IBM and VAX computers. Books 46 Crosby Street, Northampton, MA 01060 1566565766 $16.95 1-413-582-7054 www.interlinkbooks.com Compiled and edited by Laurence Kelly (son of a former British ambassador to Russia and a regular visitor to Moscow for most of his life), A Traveller's Companion To Moscow is a collection of selections from letters, diaries, memoirs and novels tracing the story of Moscow from Neolithic times to its formal establishment in 1147 A.D. as one of many royal hunting camps and fortified fortified (fôrt  ´fīd),adj containing additives more potent than the principal ingredient. settlements (Kremlins), to its history as the city of Moscow invaded by or in thrall to the Khans, the Tartars Tartars: see Tatars. Tartars 13th-century rapacious hordes of Genghis Khan. [Medieval Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 1064] See : Savagery , the Poles, and the French. This is the story of a turbulent city as recorded through the voices of visitors and residents from Catherine the Great Catherine the Great: see Catherine II. , to Pushkin, Stendhal, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and so many, many others. Also specifically designed and intended as an on-site travel guide for the use of visitors this vibrant, complex metropolis, A Traveller's Companion To Moscow is replete with maps, engravings, notes on history, art, architecture, and city life. Highly recommended reading for armchair travelers and students of Muscovite muscovite: see mica. muscovite or common mica or potash mica or isinglass Abundant silicate mineral that contains potassium and aluminum and has a layered atomic structure. It is the most common member of the mica group. history. |
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