Literature

Not By Bread Alone V. Dudintsev 1957

Not By Bread Alone. A Novel in Four Parts. (Не Хлебом Единым. Роман в Четырех Частях). Vladimir Dudintsev. Munich, Tsope (Цопе - Центральная организация послевоенных политических эмигрантов), 1957. 1st edition. 298 pages. Emigre publisher. Dudintsev's...

Spiritual Prose Nikolai Gogol [IN RUSSIAN]

Nikolai Gogol (Н. Гоголь). Spiritual Prose (Духовная проза). IN RUSSIAN. Important and significant religious and moral works by Gogol, mostly unknown to the modern reader. Several pages of photographs, including drawings by F.G. Solntsev, portraits of...

Onomastics [IN RUSSIAN]

Ономастика. Сборник статей. (Onomastics. Collection of articles.) Various contributors. Moscow: Nauka, 1969. Softcover, 262 pages. IN RUSSIAN. Descriptions and classification of various types of proper names - personal names, geographical names, trade...

Ivan Chonkin [Voinovich] YMCA Press 1975

The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin. (Жизнь и необычайные приключения солдата Ивана Чонкина (Роман Анекдот в Пяти Частях). Vladimir Voinovich [Владимир Войнович]. Paris: YMCA-Press, 1975. First edition. 357 pages, portrait...

Measure of Baseness [Мера Подлости] Viktor Mort

A Measure of Baseness [Мера Подлости]. Viktor Mort. A novel about a group of Russian emigres who take it upon themselves to build an Orthodox church and establish a parish. The story is full of vivid characters who begin by expanding their parish, and,...

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...