Download or read book Sasha s Matrioshka Dolls written by Jana Dillon and published by . This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In old Moscow lived a little girl named Sasha & her grandfather, a boxmaker. One day her beloved rag doll falls prey to mice. What can Grandfather do? ¿Wait!¿ he says. ¿I¿ll carve you a doll from a scrap of wood. Sasha paints the doll to look like a Matrioshka, ¿a little mother,¿ & loves this doll, too. Pleased, Grandfather carves another doll of the same shape in which to store the first. Unfortunately, 2 matrioshkas are not enough, for a mouse can easily steal 2 tiny dolls in one, & a rat can abscond with 3. A cat can knock over 4, & what are 5 to the Tsar¿s cavalry! How many matrioshkas will Sasha need to know that her doll is secure? Grandfather is willing to carve on & on, until Sasha has just the right number of dolls in this heartwarming intergenerational story.
Download or read book Russia on the Edge written by Edith W. Clowes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russians have confronted a major crisis of identity. Soviet ideology rested on a belief in historical progress, but the post-Soviet imagination has obsessed over territory. Indeed, geographical metaphors—whether axes of north vs. south or geopolitical images of center, periphery, and border—have become the signs of a different sense of self and the signposts of a new debate about Russian identity. In Russia on the Edge Edith W. Clowes argues that refurbished geographical metaphors and imagined geographies provide a useful perspective for examining post-Soviet debates about what it means to be Russian today. Clowes lays out several sides of the debate. She takes as a backdrop the strong criticism of Soviet Moscow and its self-image as uncontested global hub by major contemporary writers, among them Tatyana Tolstaya and Viktor Pelevin. The most vocal, visible, and colorful rightist ideologue, Aleksandr Dugin, the founder of neo-Eurasianism, has articulated positions contested by such writers and thinkers as Mikhail Ryklin, Liudmila Ulitskaia, and Anna Politkovskaia, whose works call for a new civility in a genuinely pluralistic Russia. Dugin’s extreme views and their many responses—in fiction, film, philosophy, and documentary journalism—form the body of this book. In Russia on the Edge literary and cultural critics will find the keys to a vital post-Soviet writing culture. For intellectual historians, cultural geographers, and political scientists the book is a guide to the variety of post-Soviet efforts to envision new forms of social life, even as a reconstructed authoritarianism has taken hold. The book introduces nonspecialist readers to some of the most creative and provocative of present-day Russia’s writers and public intellectuals.
Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-10-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.
Download or read book Sasha Dolls written by Susanna E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1913-06-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents an identification guide to the previous three manufactured productions of Sasha Dolls in Germany, England, and again in Germany from 1965 to 2001.
Download or read book Always a Song written by Ellen Harper and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always a Song is a collection of stories from singer and songwriter Ellen Harper—folk matriarch and mother to the Grammy-winning musician Ben Harper. Harper shares vivid memories of growing up in Los Angeles through the 1960s among famous and small-town musicians, raising Ben, and the historic Folk Music Center. This beautifully written memoir includes stories of Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, The New Lost City Ramblers, Doc Watson, and many more. • Harper takes readers on an intimate journey through the folk music revival. • The book spans a transformational time in music, history, and American culture. • Covers historical events from the love-ins, women's rights protests, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy to the popularization of the sitar and the ukulele. • Includes full-color photo insert. "Growing up, an endless stream of musicians and artists came from across the country to my family's music store. Bess Lomax Hawes, Joan Baez, Sonny Terry, and Brownie McGee—all the singers, organizers, guitar and banjo pickers and players, songwriters, painters, dancers, their husbands, wives, and children—we were all in it together. And we believed singing could change the world."—Ellen Harper Music lovers and history buffs will enjoy this rare invitation into a world of stories and song that inspired folk music today. • A must-read for lovers of music, history, and those nostalgic for the acoustic echo of the original folk music that influenced a generation • Harper's parents opened the legendary Folk Music Center in Claremont, California, as well as the revered folk music venue The Golden Ring. • A perfect book for people who are obsessed with folk music, all things 1960s, learning about musical movements, or California history • Great for those who loved Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years of Woodstock by Barney Hoskyns; and Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon—and the Journey of a Generation by Sheila Weller.
Download or read book Dark Eyes written by Nina Romano and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Russian ballerina and a police photographer, destined to be lovers, seek to unfold the murder mystery of two women... DARK EYES...Anya, an unwed mother of a mentally challenged child, meets Andrei, at a murder scene. They strive to unravel the murders of a hotel worker and a doll-seller with a link to diamond smuggling in Soviet Leningrad. The offbeat couple, in jeopardy, are stalked by a vicious detective with possible involvement in the murders, and in a taut reversal, the hunted become the hunters. "Nina Romano’s latest historical novel, Dark Eyes, is a suspenseful, edgy, intense nail-biter. I couldn’t tear myself away from the story until the end—then I wanted to start over again to concentrate on the rich historical details and luxuriate in her dazzling prose. Another five-star tour de force from a top-notch novelist!" —Cynthia Hamilton, author of Spouse Trap and A High Price to Pay
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Download or read book Sasha Dolls written by Dorisanne Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Matryoshka Memoirs written by Sasha Colby and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A granddaughter explores the story of her Ukrainian grandmother’s survival of Hitler’s forced labor camps Irina Nikifortchuk was 19 years old and a Ukrainian schoolteacher when she was abducted to be a forced laborer in the Leica camera factory in Nazi Germany. Eventually pulled from the camp hospital to work as a domestic in the Leica owners’ household, Irina survived the war and eventually found her way to Canada. Decades later Sasha Colby, Irina’s granddaughter, seeks out her grandmother’s story over a series of summer visits and gradually begins to interweave the as-told-to story with historical research. As she delves deeper into the history of the Leica factory and World War II forced labor, she discovers the parallel story of Elsie Kühn-Leitz, Irina’s rescuer and the factory heiress, later imprisoned and interrogated by the Gestapo on charges of “excessive humanity.” This is creative nonfiction at its best as the mystery of Irina’s life unspools skillfully and arrestingly. Despite the horrors that the story must tell, it is full of life, humor, food, and the joy of ordinary safety in Canada. The Matryoshka Memoirs takes us into a forgotten corner of history, weaving a rich and satisfying tapestry of survival and family ties and asking what we owe those who aid us.
Download or read book The Littlest Matryoshka written by Corinne Bliss and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tender, old-fashioned story, Nina, the smallest of a group of Russian nesting dolls, is separated from her sisters and swept along on a dangerous journey.
Download or read book New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-10 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sasha and Babushka written by Vladimir Shpitalnik and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On her sixth birthday, Sasha's greatest wish comes true when she and her grandmother, Babushka, ride a train to Moscow to see a puppet show at the Theater Kookla.
Download or read book The Art of the Russian Matryoshka written by Rett Ertl and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2003 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nesting one inside the other, wooden matryoshka dolls are a favorite toy in Russian homes and are collected by enthusiasts around the world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, this volume tells the story of matryoshka production from the doll's first appearance in the toy making center of Sergiev Posad in 1899 through its contemporary interpretations by entrepreneurial artists. Each step in the manufacturing process?from the cutting of logs through the final lacquering of the dolls?is described in detail.
Download or read book Russian Nesting Dolls written by Dan Davies and published by Infinity Publishing (PA). This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Hero in this Book Travels from Minor to Major Adventure, Resembling the Russian toy, Matryoska Dolls (Nesting Dolls) ur Hero is a Retired US Marine looking for something new to get into and boy did he fifi nd something that almost ended his life. He runs into many Unsavory characters in his Adventures. ThTh ese take him to Turkey, Bulgaria, Germany, Romania, Syria and Greece. He has to deal with Illegal Gun Running, Illegal Drugs, Murders, Kidnapping to the Weapons of Mass Destruction. You must read to the end because there is a twist that even he did not see coming.
Download or read book Sasha Puppen written by Sasha Morgenthaler and published by Benteli Verlag. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book about Sasha Morganthaler and her famous dolls - Sasha Dolls, distinguished by their enigmatic, knowing facial features, their musing looks and the loving and life-like design of their limbs and clothing. Sasha created typical figures and groups of dolls that win the heart and reveal her social commitment. Christine Seiler's photographs, taken especially for this book, bring alive Sasha Morgenthaler's personal collection. An illustrated biography and a bibliography complete the book.
Download or read book Your Constant Star written by Brenda Hasiuk and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faye is the "good" adopted Chinese daughter. Bev is the wild child. Mannie is the unambitious stoner. What brings them together--and tears them apart--is a need to move beyond the clichés and commit to something--anything--that will bring meaning and joy to their lives. When Faye's long-lost childhood neighbor, Bev, turns up out of the blue, wanting something from her old friend, Faye goes along with Bev's plan. But Mannie, the joyriding daddy of Bev's baby, has a half-crazed romantic agenda of his own. As one cold, miserable prairie spring inches toward summer, a series of unexpected and sometimes explosive decisions sends the trio hurtling toward disaster. A darkly funny portrayal of three unforgettable teenagers feeling their way into adulthood in an imperfect world.
Download or read book Magic Nesting Doll written by Jacqueline K. Ogburn and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After her grandmother dies, Katya finds herself in a kingdom where the Tsarevitch has been turned into living ice and she uses the magic nesting dolls her babushka had given her to try to break the curse.
