A recent conversation on the popular listserve SEELANGS led to many experts volunteering some of their favorite works about the city of Moscow -including films, novels, histories, and academic studies. Below are the majority of the works mentioned.
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Poems
| Moscow in the Plague Year: Poems | Evgenii Onegin: A Novel in Verse |
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Novels and Plays:
| The Three Sisters | “Cleansing Monday | Happy Moscow |
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| Moscow Tales | Moscow to the End of the Line | Woe from Wit |
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| Moscow-Petersburg | In the First Circle | Moscow 2042 |
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| Homo Zapiens | Omon Ra | METRO 2033 |
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| My Childhood | Mother | Children of the Arbat |
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| First Love | Moskva Kva-Kva | A Double Life |
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| War and Peace | “The Cave” | Poor Liza |
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| Three Russian Tales of the Eighteenth Century | What Is To Be Done? | Anna Karenina |
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| The Ship of Widows | Generations of Winter | Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 |
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| The Slynx | The Time: Night | “Postmark: Moscow” |
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| A Novel Without Lies | The Grassy Street | Dim and Distant Days |
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| The Old Arbat | The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl: 1932-1937 | Petroleum Venus |
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| Metro: A Novel of the Moscow Underground | Doctor Zhivago | My Past and Thoughts |
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History and Academic Works
| Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis | The Many Lives of Khrushchev’s Thaw | Moscow: The Russian Rome |
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| Moscow Diary | The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia | The Russian Road to China |
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| The Icon and the Axe: An Interpretative History of Russian Culture | Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century | A History of Russian Architecture |
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| Commerce in Russian Urban Culture, 1861-1914 | Geography of the Soviet Union | Cultures of Contamination, Volume 14: Legacies of Pollution in Russia and the US |
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| The City in Late Imperial Russia |
The Environs of Russian Cities |
The Russians |
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| Russian Nature: Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Societal Change | Small-Town Russia: Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities | Medieval Russia: A Source Book, 850-1700 |
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| “St. Basil’s Cathedral” & “The Moscow Metro” |
“Moscow in the 1930s” | The People of Moscow |
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| Discourse of the Moscow Metro in the 1930s | ||
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| In Russian | ||
| Алтын-Толобас | Возвышение Москвы | Москва |
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| Няня из Москвы | Лето Господне | Богомолье |
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| Легкая голова | Живите в Москве | Москва москвичей |
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| Films | ||
| Мне двадцать лет | Moskva | Я шагаю по Москве |
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| Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears |
Bed and Sofa | |
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