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English-Language Bookstores

Anglia is St. Petersburg's best-known English-language bookstore, with a large selection of Russian literature in translation, popular fiction, and classic English literature, as well as sections on photography, history, biography, and foreign languages. The friendly English-speaking staff is ready to assist you with all your literary needs. Though it doesn't have nearly the same selection, you could also try St. Petersburg's largest bookstore, Dom Knigi (House of Books). A limited selection of outdated English-language guidebooks on various parts of the former Soviet Union is available at Akademkniga. Iskusstvo, like Akademkniga, stocks English-language guidebooks.

Bookstores

Akademkniga. 57 Liteiny pr., Liteiny/Smolny, St. Petersburg. 812/273-1398. Metro: Mayakovskaya.

Anglia. 38 nab. Fontanka, Vladimirskaya, St. Petersburg. 812/279-8284. www.anglophile.ru. Metro: Dostoyevskaya, Vladimirskaya.

Dom Knigi. 62 Nevsky pr., City Center, St. Petersburg. 812/570-6546. Metro: Nevsky Prospekt. 28 Nevsky pr. 812/448-2355. Metro: Nevsky Prospekt.

Newspapers & Magazines

American and British paperbacks, newspapers, and magazines are on sale in hotel gift shops. The St. Petersburg Times (www.sptimes.ru), a free, local, English-language newspaper, is a good source for happenings around town. It's published Tuesday and Friday and is available at hotels, cafés, and clubs throughout St. Petersburg.