Literature

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...

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...

Dead Souls by Gogol [In Russian]

Nikolai Gogol. Dead Souls.  Moscow: Художественная литература, 1964. Blue cloth hardcover, 394 pages. Illustrations by A. Agin. Solidly bound copy with mild external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Dead Souls (Мёртвые души) was first published in...

Empire of the Czar: Journey Through Russia

Marquis De Custine. Empire of the Czar. An excellent travelogue by the French aristocrat Marquis de Custine (1790-1857) who,  in the 1830's, traveled throughout Russia. He details the personalities and workings of society and the court at...

Rasputin [Biography by his daughter]

Rasputin: The Man Behind the Myth (A Personal Memoir). Maria Rasputin and Patte Barham. A personal and colorful account of Grigori Rasputin (18969-1916) by his daughter, Maria Grigorievna (1898-1977). Drawing on stories told to her by her father,...

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...

Songs and romances of A. Merzlyakov [RUSSIAN]

Songs and romances of A. Merzlyakov (Песни и романсы А. Мерзлякова). The book is a facsimile edition of Alexey Fyodorovich Merzlyakov's collection "Songs and Romances", published by the printing house of S. Selivanovskiy, 1830. The appendix to the...

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...

Anna Karenina [2004]

 Anna Karenina. Leo Tolstoy. Translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. NY: Penguin, 2004. 1st printing. 864 pages. Paperback with deckle edges and French flaps. Gently used condition with scuffs to covers, but no marks or names in text...

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...

Lermontov: Complete works in 4 volumes [1939]

Лермонтов Михаил Юрьевич. Полное собрание сочинений в 4 (четырех) томах. Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov. Complete works in four volumes. Издательство "Художественная Литература" в 1939-1940. Edited by Boris Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (1886-1959). Volume 1...

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...