A 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.
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 |
Moscow Tales | Moscow to the End of the Line | Woe from Wit |
Moscow-Petersburg | In the First Circle | Moscow 2042 |
Homo Zapiens | Omon Ra | METRO 2033 |
My Childhood | Mother | Children of the Arbat |
First Love | Moskva Kva-Kva | A Double Life |
War and Peace | “The Cave” | Poor Liza |
Three Russian Tales of the Eighteenth Century | What Is To Be Done? | Anna Karenina |
The Ship of Widows | Generations of Winter | Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922 |
The Slynx | The Time: Night | “Postmark: Moscow” |
A Novel Without Lies | The Grassy Street | Dim and Distant Days |
The Old Arbat | The Diary of a Soviet Schoolgirl: 1932-1937 | Petroleum Venus |
Metro: A Novel of the Moscow Underground | Doctor Zhivago | My Past and Thoughts |
History and Academic Works
Moscow: Governing the Socialist Metropolis | The Many Lives of Khrushchev’s Thaw | “Moscow: The Russian Rome“ |
Moscow Diary | The Transformation of Urban Space in Post-Soviet Russia | The Russian Road to China |
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 |
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 |
The City in Late Imperial Russia |
The Environs of Russian Cities |
The Russians |
Russian Nature: Exploring the Environmental Consequences of Societal Change | Small-Town Russia: Postcommunist Livelihoods and Identities | Medieval Russia: A Source Book, 850-1700 |
“St. Basil’s Cathedral” & “The Moscow Metro” |
“Moscow in the 1930s” | The People of Moscow |
Moscow and Muscovites | ||