Wellread111's reviews

Very well chronicled, in siquence by factual events, with great photography and paintings ... Fair, unbiased and tactful. Great documentary... for everyone who think the Russia and/or Ukraine are the lands of the big White bears. What's lacking, is the good proper Translation by a Russian or Ukrainian person, however biased they could be. Because otherwise, the language and naming used are very circamstent and very limited in using the actual English or American-English, at that. Absence of punctuation (almost-total) and repetitious terms as: was banned, was deprived.... when actually, Had Been would be appropriate, instead. If you can tolerate that, the book is Terrific. Just read it from the very beginging to the end; and not backwards. I admit my fault at trying to do so, at first & To regret it later Unreadable, as translation is severly lacking and innopropriate ! Plus, a huge error in accuracy and factual occurance: the lands of Russia and Ukraine had never ever had Slavery ! It had server-hood: the people who served biars or noble-men. And who didn't ( In flesh or in their labers) physically Belonged to other living person(s) ! As compared to America.

Beautifully written and illustrated. Just how the literature should be written, always ! Whatever the subject might be, no matter if it's factual or a fiction ! Thank, you dear Author, Mr. L.D. Hicks !

Yellowed old paper pages, dark black-and-white few photos and the horrible smelly paper . Result- impossible to read or enjoy.

First: Beware ! Do Not open this book on the empty stomach ! It will kill your brain, stomach and the rest of your organs, totally and irreversably ! I have never read such an amazingly written book: brilliantly written and illustrated ! The recipes presented with such accuracy and the detail ! Also, the history of dishes and when they were made and for which occasions. Writing is as if it were done by a Scholar of English language and literature professor. It's imppossible to put it down, and makes your mouth water once you open the Book and proud to be an American.

Extremely presumptious, unsure and poorly written account of Ancient history of the Russian society. Mongol and Tartars that had comprised the "Golden Horde" in early XII until middle of the XV centuries failes to illustrate and to write of two different "peoples": The Tartars (also known as Tatars) and the Mongols. Instead, author mixes them up in undifined mix... and totally ignore their crucial differences, locations and and their territorial and political roots ! Find the Russian (Soviet) writer(s) who will present the time of mongol-tatar yolk period truly and with much less bias and assumptions then foreigners ever can..., I do not reccommend the book.