Book Review: Anastasya

Title: Anastasya, Son Granduses
Writer: Caroly Meyer
Year: 2003
Pages: 208 (Hardcover)

The book is the diary of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia who was murdered when she was 17 together with her whole family.

I bought the book from kitapyurdu.

The book is not so exciting if you are not into history or Romanovs, but what happened after her death is very interesting,see the below wikipedia entries for more info.

Here is the Ideefixe link to the book.

• Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia
• Anna Anderson
• The Anastasia movie by Ingrid Bergman
  

Book Review: Moskova Insanlari

Title: Moskova Insanlari
Writer: Ahmet Sel
Year: 2003
Pages: 112

I searched soo hard for this book and could not find it from even the publisher of the book.
Mailed to several online bookstores and all replied :out of stock
I mailed the book author and he said the books is sold out in Turkey long time ago and directed me to the French original from amazon.fr.At last I found it at ilkekitap.com and mailed them hopelessly asking if the book exists in their stock and YES! they mailed me the book in two days.


This is a collection of photographs with a paragraph-length story of the people.If you are into photograph-arts it may be more valuable for you.The stories of post-soviet people are also nice to read.

Here is the Ilke Kitap link to the book,buy it when you still can.

Book Review: Merhaba Rusya

Title: Merhaba Rusya
Writer: Hakan Aksay
Year: 2005
Pages: ~150
This great book is written by journalist Hakan Aksay who has been living in Moscow for 22 years.During my 5th visit to Moscow, I stayed at Credit Europe Bank's flat for 16 days and my housemate had this book.This is a short book(nearly 150 pages) but contains most necessary and introductory information about Russia.
The books is sponsored by Yapi Kredi Bank Moscow and unfortunately, i could not find it in Turkey.

Book Review: Rusya Tarihi Baslangictan 1917'ye Kadar

Title: Rusya Tarihi Baslangictan 1917'ye Kadar
Writer: Akdes Nimet KURAT (Prof. Dr.)
Year: 1999
Pages: ~1000

I bought this book from Turk Tarih Kurumu sales office when I was in Ankara.The has a nice price(nearly 10YTL for this thick book).
The book starts around year 800 and describes the nation formation phase of the Russians.Gives states established by Russians and the wars, the emperors...etc till the October Revolution.Nice to read if you are interested in details of Russian History.Here is the Pandora link to the book to buy online.

Two boring books

I bought and read two more books from Ideefixe but they were so boring,now i will start 'Mavi Evdekiler' hope this one is good.You may click on the images to go to product pages on Ideefixe.

Those were the days

It's been more than a year since I interrailed.Nice to look at pics,I wish I can do it again.

Book Review: Buyuk Geri Sicrama

Title: Buyuk Geri Sicrama Yikinti ve Umut Rusyasinda Roportaj
Writer: Henri Alleg
Year: 1998
Pages: 192

The book says that this is an interview book but there is not any inside.The book was written in '98, Russia was passing through hard times.The author supports the idea that the old USSR days were better.Now the book is outdated and Russia is not in a bad situation as the book describes.The Ideefixe link is here.

Book Review: Sovyet Rusya'da Devlet Teroru

Title: Sovyet Rusya'da Devlet Teroru
Writer: Necip Hablemitoglu
Year: 1974(1st edition),2004(2nd edition)
Pages: 224

Although the back cover claims that the books is a well written research material,it is not.In fact it should not be a book, is it just a paragraph saying that the lots people were forces to work in labor camps with extremely hard conditions and many died.That's all the books says but it says it over and over again with no new interesting stories.
Waste of time.You can find it ad Ideefixe.

Back in Russia

This time Moscow was sunny (at least in the first few days).On my previous visits I got the idea that Moscow was a gray city,now I realized that it is a green and beautiful city.This time i had time to visit Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts which has Rembrandt,Durer,Peter Bruegel the Elder and many more.Too bad that the explanations under the paintings were in Russian and the audioguide covered only a few.After the visit my friends said that most of those Russian explanations were stating that the art piece was in fact a copy :)

Just opposite the museum there exists a huge chuch named 'Christ the Saviour'

Amasra

Here are the photos taken from my bedroom's window at Amasra