The world of the ancient Slavs by Zdeněk Váňa

*Billington, James H: The Icon And The Axe (Alfred A. (eds.): Studies In Russian Historical Geography (Academic Press Inc., 1983). An entertaining collection of Russian fables and folk stories, with a fascinating historical essay included.Īlexander, Alex: Russian Folklore: An Anthology in English Translation (Nordland Publishing, 1975).īater, James and French, R.A. Norbert Guterman): Russian Fairy Tales (Pantheon Books, 1973). GMs wishing even further research should look for the many scholarly periodicals dedicated to Russian studies most college libraries have collections of the Slavic Review and others. Titles marked with an asterisk (*) are particularly rich, and are especially useful for expanding the detail and flavor of a Russian campaign. The works on this list were selected on the basis of their usefulness and readability any listed are valuable to GMs or players interested in further reading. On a similar note, many of the modern authors listed below have written dozens of useful works not listed here, some of which were consulted when preparing GURPS Russia. Works such as The Primary Chronicle, the Giles Fletcher journals, and the observations of ibn Rusteh, Olearius and others are all valuable reading, and several translations can be found. Most primary sources have no standard edition currently in print.

Students of the Kievan Era have been warned. These remaining few are likely biographies of Ivan the Terrible or Peter the Great. Once the remaining books on the latter tsars and the life of Catherine the Great have been discounted, the eager reader is lucky if he finds a single book about the periods covered here. If you spot any broken links or other problems with this page, please report them to for GURPS RussiaĪny good library has dozens of books on Russia, but the overwhelming majority are on such arcana as Soviet economics or the poets of the 1917 revolution.

You can find an index of all the GURPS bibliographies we have online here.

The world of the ancient Slavs by Zdeněk Váňa