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Thank you, I found it and can contact them. It does kind of boggle the mind that devout Russians can endure in that cesspool, but a google map that came up in my search for the bookstore shows Little Russia a part of or near the Richmond District. I remember very little of what is now in San Francisco and how to get to the different points of interest.

There was a Catholic presence in the early days in CA but in the north and to Alaska there was a Russian Orthodox presence. North of where we lived, I remember the name Russian River and some other iconic something Russian which wouldn't have interested me at the time.

The Russian Orthodox seem to be very devout, and, just guessing, has come about as a result of "latter day" Russian emigres. Of course, my impression of Russians in the US is that many are totally secular.

I developed this "thing" about Russia about 20 years ago, don't know what precipitated it, must have been Glasnost. As an older teen I and my friends went to see the movie "Nicholas and Alexandra", and I never forgot the horror of the murder, also followed Anna Anderson, never felt in my heart that she was Anastasia which turned out to be right.

Checkhov and Tolstoy are probably my favorite Russian writers, one other I can't recall, brothers Karamazov.

Got it. It was the book and movie, Dr. Zhivago which stretches back to the late 60's early 70's. That stirred my passion for nearly all things Russian except the Communists for which I have an enduring well hatred. I've either gone to, rented or bought nearly every Russian film I could find.