7 DAYS IN RUSSIA. IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK. Take one very, very curious American, mix in 145 million Russians and a century of preconceived notions and then pour this mixture out against the magnificent urban theater played out daily in Moscow, St Petersburg and Pushkin – and you've got M.G. Crisci's book, 7 Days in Russia—The Adventures of One American in Today’s Federation. We learn through words, insights and more than 150 revealing color photos taken by Crisci that Russia is not a politically repressed country of starving millions that survive day-to-day on an endless stream of vodka. Russians are, in fact, a proud, engaging, curious and, yes, quirky people, working their way through a protracted complex historic political, cultural and economic transition. As Crisci came to learn ordinary Russians are very much like the millions ordinary Americans. They want to hold on to vestiges of the past while running full speed ahead into what Henry Kissinger calls "The New World Order."