Romantic Russian Phrase Book is an easy to learn course of conversational Russian for English speakers. Developed specifically for those who are seeking to establish romantic relationships in Russia, the phrase book is also a perfect tool for every beginner who would like to get the taste of Russian language and culture. To simplify the process of language study for learners, the author selected hundreds of most common, very short, easy to pronounce Russian phrases, which everyone comes across during international travel. This is why the Romantic Russian Phrase Book is a perfect item to keep in a handbag and use continuously on the way. Full audio support for every unit of the phrase book is available on the author's Web site to let the learners get acquainted with specificities of Russian pronunciation and intonation. The links to audio files are provided everywhere throughout the book. The current edition is more than just a phrase book: it is an efficient tool to learn necessary things about Russian people, culture, and lifestyle. The book contains hundreds of examples of romantic communication, sample dialogs, numerous tips from the best linguists and relationships experts, useful notes about Russian lifestyle, a bit of easy grammar to keep in mind, transliteration support to master pronunciation, and the author's contact information to request additional counseling and/or language training. The 18 thematic units of the phrase book are: UNIT 1. How To Be Polite In Russian UNIT 2. Greetings UNIT 3. Your First Meeting With Her UNIT 4. How To Say A Compliment To Her UNIT 5. Making Her A Gift UNIT 6. Romantic Dinner For Two UNIT 7. When She Is Silent And Thoughtful UNIT 8. Moments Of Intimacy UNIT 9. When Doing Things Together UNIT 10. Creating Cute Nicknames/ Having Fun Together UNIT 11. Asking For Things UNIT 12. Speaking To Her On The Phone UNIT 13. Riding In A Taxi UNIT 14. Shopping Together UNIT 15. Meeting Her Family UNIT 16. Some Conversation Starters UNIT 17. Some Phrases To Use In Love Letters UNIT 18. Common Words To Use In Conversation You are welcome to try this phrasebook. Feel free to contact the author for additional information and training. Learn Russian with love! Good luck in your wonderful Russian adventure!

"'Russian for Lovers' came about as an attempt to teach my beloved the basics of my native language. By a methodical working through of each letter and its comparable sound in English, a problematic relationship emerges between the speaker and her homeland, revealing the barriers inherent in trying to translate a culture and linguistic system, and the ultimate transcendent nature of two lovers trying to be together"--publisher's web site, viewed on March 19, 2014.

Following Playing Hard to Master and Finding Master Right, Sparrow Beckett delivers a seductive tale of surrendered innocence with this third novel in the Masters Unleashed series. Konstantin, a powerful Dominant, is used to fast living and wanton submissives. But after years of his grandmother haranguing him to marry, he agrees to meet a girl from her rural Russian village. Naturally submissive, Varushka turns out to be everything Konstantin wants in a woman. At first her innocence is disturbing, but her enthusiasm for life captivates him. When their relationship becomes a mutual seduction, Konstantin introduces Varushka to wicked pleasures she never imagined. His attentive care wins her absolute devotion. However, when Varushka’s father finds out about Konstantin’s past, he whisks her back home to Russia. Will Konstantin fight to reclaim her, or will his guilt convince him to relinquish the only woman he’s ever loved?

From two bestselling authors—the first in a deliciously bold new series that takes readers to the most dangerous edge of desire . . . Nikolai: I have been a contract killer since I was a boy. For years I savored the fear caused by my name, the trembling at the sight of my tattoos. The stars on my knees, the marks on my fingers, the dagger in my neck, all spoke of danger. If you saw my eyes, it was the last vision you’d have. I have ever been the hunter, never the prey. With her, I am the mark and I am ready to lie down and let her capture me. Opening my small, scarred heart to her brings out my enemies. I will carry out one last hit, but if they hurt her, I will bring the world down around their ears. Daisy: I’ve been sheltered from the outside world all my life. Home-schooled and farm-raised, I’m so naive that my best friend calls me Pollyanna. I like to believe the best about people. Nikolai is part of this new life, and he’s terrifying to me. Not because his eyes are cold or my friend warns me away from him, but because he’s the only man who has ever seen the real me beneath the awkwardness. With him, my heart is at risk . . . and also, my life.

Russia haunted the British cultural imagination throughout the 20th century – whether as a romantic source of literary and political inspiration or as a warning of creeping totalitarianism. In this new book, Ira Nadel, charts the story of that influence through the work of some of the key figures in British literature across the century, including Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Jane Harrison, Virginia Woolf, and H.G. Wells. Framed by the story of two romantic encounters, between Walter Benjamin and the actress Asja Lacis in Moscow in 1926 and between Isaiah Berlin and Anna Akhmatova in 1945, Love and Russian Literature casts a vivid new light on the ways in which responses to Russia shaped the history of British modernism.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1893.

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena—dazzling, poignant, and lyrical interwoven stories about family, sacrifice, the legacy of war, and the redemptive power of art. This stunning, exquisitely written collection introduces a cast of remarkable characters whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking. A 1930s Soviet censor painstakingly corrects offending photographs, deep underneath Leningrad, bewitched by the image of a disgraced prima ballerina. A chorus of women recount their stories and those of their grandmothers, former gulag prisoners who settled their Siberian mining town. Two pairs of brothers share a fierce, protective love. Young men across the former USSR face violence at home and in the military. And great sacrifices are made in the name of an oil landscape unremarkable except for the almost incomprehensibly peaceful past it depicts. In stunning prose, with rich character portraits and a sense of history reverberating into the present, The Tsar of Love and Techno is a captivating work from one of our greatest new talents.