About the Author

Writer and TV producer Masha Nordbye has travelled extensively throughout the former Soviet Union during the past 25 years, and studied at Moscow University. She has produced films for National Geographic, ABC, Discovery Channel, PBS, Disney, and Twentieth Century Fox, as well as documentaries on the Russian Circus, Lake Baikal and Siberian tigers. Nordbye lives in Los Angeles, California.

Reviews

"Indispensable... It not only provides a cornucopia of practical information and cultural insight, but takes the traveller on a splendid journey through the extensive map of the Russian soul." - Isabel Allende - "As the designer of Russia's first ever golf course in Moscow, I and my international crew had the pleasure of using Ms Nordbye's guide extensively as we placed the Reds on the Greens! A definite 'Don't Leave Home Without It!'..." - Robert Trent Jones, II - "