Thread: Bookstores in Moscow

Do you know of any English bookstores in Moscow?

Tom

'Anglia' is now on Staropimenovskiy pereulok, off Tverskaya. Used to be the best place in Moscow for English books; has gone downhill somewhat since its move.

Aren't there any 'English-English' bookstores, like W.H.Smiths and Waterstones (love those), or good American ones like Barnes & Noble?

I don't think I've ever seen WH Smith outside the UK. Btw they seem to have gone downhill in the last decade.

I don't think there are any shops like that in Moskva.

I did visit a very good, very big bookshop just off Lyubyanka .. Mir Knig or something? Had lots of English books (+ some very good ones for Russian learners incidentally!)

I got confused, I think there are two really big/famous ones like that.

Sorry not much help..

Why have WH Smiths and Waterstone's gone downhill? I haven't been (consciously) alive enough to have noticed any difference. We do have those two here in Amsterdam, and two good ones in Exeter where my family come from.

Waterstone's is great, generally. Smiths, I dunno - maybe .. well not important. Never seen any branches in Europe but I've never been to the Netherlands

I did visit a very good, very big bookshop just off Lyubyanka .. Mir Knig or something?

BiblioGlobus, perhaps?

Yup, that was it. Globus.

A bit of a late weigh-in here, but i must concur that WH Smith has gone WAY downhill, here in Canada at least. They used to have a location in every mall, but since Chapters came along (similar to B&N) they have for the most part disappeared. A little off topic, but hey, why not.
Ryan

I may be wrong, but all BIG bookstores ("Dom Knigi" in Arbat, "BiblioGlobus", former "Molodaya Gvardiya" at Polyanka, etc.) seem to have rather big departments of foreign-language literature nowadays.

there's a wh smith in paris (rue de rivoli) and a small but decent english bookstore in moscow...gosh, i just forgot the metro station, but i bought an english-russian dictionary there for 25 roubles

oh yes, kuznetski most! on kuznestki most ulitsa i guess.

Originally Posted by possopo

oh yes, kuznetski most! on kuznestki most ulitsa i guess.

Yup, it's at number 18, although it's not strictly a English-language bookshop: Дом иностранной книги is the name - if we're talking about the same place - and it has both a decent EFL section and what purports to be a French literature shelf. Purports. It's actually a few horrid little soft-cover Balzacs and some badly-translated Agatha Christie.