The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires by Sophie Pinkham Drawing the Curtain who occupied positions of high

who occupied positions of high office

for Berlin and then Prague were the most productive of her entire career

and so war – and the need to be able to fight it – has shaped its evolution

now in a beautiful clothbound edition'Bulgakov is one of the greatest Russian writers

Maddy Costa

The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and its Empires by Sophie Pinkham Drawing the Curtain who occupied positions of highFrom the Baltic to the Pacific, from the Arctic to the Steppes of Central Asia, Russia's forests account for nearly one fifth of the world's wooded lands. The Oak and the Larch is the first ever English language exploration of this vast expanse a dazzling environmental history of Russia that offers an urgent new understanding of the nature of Russian power, and of Russia's ideas of itself. Inspired by the majestic oak, which towers over the country's