Literature

Riddles of Russian People - Sadovnikov [IN RUSSIAN]

Riddles of the Russian people. A collection of riddles, questions, parables and tasks. Compiled by Dmitry N. Sadovnikov (1847-1883). Introductory article, editing and notes by V.P. Anikin. Dmitry Nikolayevich was a Russian poet, folklorist and...

Dostoevsky in portraits, illustrations, documents [RUSSIAN]

Dostoevsky in portraits, illustrations, documents (Ф. М. Достоевский в портретах, иллюстрациях, документах). Edited by Vera Nechaeva. IN RUSSIAN. Large cloth hardcover missing dustjacket. Moscow: Просвещение, 1972. 447 pages. 1 copy only. A detailed...

Пословицы (Proverbs of the Russian People)

Пословицы русского народа. Сборник В. Даля (Proverbs of the Russian people. Collected by V. Dal). Moscow: Художественная литература, 1957. 990 pages. Index. The classic collection of 30,000 proverbs and sayings compiled by the great Russian...

Russian Folk Tales: A Dual-Language Book

Russian Folktales from the Collection of A. Afanasyev: A Dual-Language Book. Dover Publications, 2022. Paperback, 240 pages. This dual-language edition features new translations of folk tales selected from the authoritative three-volume collection by...

Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book

Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book (English and Russian Language Edition). Dover Publications, 2022. Paperback, 403 pages. This dual-language volume contains 12 stories by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov, Gogol, Turgenev, Bunin, and others. Each...

Tolstoy: The Making Of A Novelist [Crankshaw]

Tolstoy: The Making Of A Novelist. Edward Crankshaw. NY: Viking (Studio Press), 1974. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket in a protective clear Mylar cover. Illustrated by a wealth of portraits, prints, drawings, photographs and documents. 276...

Artzybashev: 3 Plays [1916]. IN RUSSIAN.

Mikhail Petrovich Artzybashev ( Михаил Петрович Арцыбашев). A collection of three plays: Ревность (Jealousy) 1913,  Война (War) 1914, and Закон дикаря (Law of the Savage) 1915.  Volume 8 in his Collected works.. Moscow:...

City of the Poet Pushkin [1965] IN RUSSIAN

The City of the Poet (Город поэта ). Marina Basina. Leningrad: Detskaya literatura (Детская литература), 1965. 272 pages. IN RUSSIAN. Covers Pushkin's life in the Lyceum, in Tsarskoye Selo, and his teachers and friends. Hardcover with many black and...

Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag

Alexander Dolgun's story: An American in the Gulag. NY: Knopf, 1975. Stated 1st edition. 370 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket (not price-clipped) in a protective Mylar jacket cover. About fine condition. 1 copy only. In 1948, Alexander Dolgun...

Interviews and conversations with Leo Tolstoy [RUSSIAN]

Interviews and conversations with Leo Tolstoy (Интервью и беседы с Львом Толстым). Compiled with introduction and comments by V. Ya. Lakshin. Moscow: 1987. Hardcover, photo illustrations. 525 pages. TEXT IN RUSSIAN. Used book in about fine condition...

Offbeat in Asia: A Journey Along the Russian Frontier [1960]

Offbeat in Asia: A Journey Along the Russian Frontier. Michael Alexander. NY: David McKay Co., Inc., 1960. 1st American edition. 180 pages, photos and maps. Good hardcover in good dustjacket now in a protective clear Mylar jacket cover. Jacket not price...

Byliniy (Былины) [1969]

Byliniy (Былины). V.I. Chicherov.  Illustrations by the celebrated graphic artist Ivan Dmitrievich Arkhipov. A collection of heroic poems that includes such works of folklore as "Sadko", "Avdotya Ryazanochka", "Vavila and the buffoons", as well...

Pushkiniana Portraits and destiny IN RUSSIAN

Portraits and destiny. From the Leningrad Pushkiniana (Портреты и судьбы. Из ленинградской Пушкинианы). Ludmila Petrovna Fevchuk. Лениздат: 1990. 2nd updated edition (original 1984). Small hardcover, 224 pages. IN RUSSIAN. Color and black and white...

Fox, Beaver and others. Fables RUSSIAN

Лиса, бобер и другие: Басни, фельетоны, шутки (Fox, beaver and others: Fables, satires and jests). Сергей Михалков Sergei Mikhalkov. Молодая гвардия, 1960. Small format hardcover, 176 pages. All the very best fables of Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov...

Prophet Oleg RUSSIAN

Вещий Олег (The Prophet Oleg) by Boris Lvovich Vasiliev (1924-2013) written in 1996. Oleg of Novgorod was a Varangian prince who ruled during the late 9th and early 10th centuries. He was a relative (brother-in-law) of the first ruler, Rurik. In the...

Historical stories RUSSIAN

Брат на брата (Brother to brother) by N.A. Alekseev-Kungurtsev (1871-1905) written in 1900. A novel about the reign of the Grand Duke of Moscow Dimitry Ioannovich (XIV century) and the strengthening of Moscow and the resistance of Ryazan and Tver, who...

Materials, bibliography and comments on Dostoevsky

Семинарий по Достоевскому: материалы, библиография и комментарии. (Materials, bibliography and comments on Dostoevsky). Leonid Petrovich Grossman. France (Paris): Mouton, 1972. Part of the Slavistic Printings and Reprintings, edited by C.H. Van...

Krylov: Works in Two Volumes. И. А. Крылов. Сочинения

И. А. Крылов. Сочинения. Комплект из 2 книг. Moscow: Художественная литература, 1969. IN RUSSIAN. Hardcover, 2 volumes. 922 pages. The first volume includes “The Post of Spirits, or the Scientist, Moral and Critical Correspondence of the Arab...

Anthology of ancient Russian literature Хрестоматия по древней русской литературе

Хрестоматия по древней русской литературе. (Учебное пособие для студентов педагогических институтов.) Anthology of ancient Russian literature. Н.К.Гудзий. The main sections of this classic textbook on ancient Russian literature include the...

History of Medieval Russian Literature История древней русской литературы

История древней русской литературы (History of Medieval Russian Literature). Н.К.Гудзий. Издание седьмое, исправленное и дополненное. (7th edition, revised and enlarged). Classic scholarly study of early Russian literature from XI to XVII centuries...