Literature

Winter Day IN RUSSIAN [V. Soloukhin]

Vladimir Soloukin. Winter Day (Зимный День). IN RUSSIAN. Includes Black Boards (Notes of a Beginning Collector) (Черные Доски) along with several other tales (see pic of table of contents). Moscow: Советский Писатель, 1967. 287 pages. Small hardcover...

White NIghts Dostoevsky [RUSSIAN]

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский). White Nights (Белые ночи). IN RUSSIAN. Together with several short stories: Ёлка и свадьба (A Christmas Tree and a Wedding), Дядюшкин сон (Uncle's Dream)б and Кроткая (A Gentle Creature)...

Russian Folk Tales, Afanasyev [IN RUSSIAN]

A.N. Afanasyev. Russian folk tales. IN RUSSIAN. Goslitizdat, 1957. Volume 2 only. 510 pages. Editor, preface and notes by V. Ya. Propp. Classic collection of over 100 tales in Russian. (See pics of index.) Vintage printing. Hardcover, spine repaired with...

Voices of the mountain cave (Голоса горной пещеры) Krymov

Voices of the mountain cave (Голоса горной пещеры). Vladimir Krymov (Владимир Пименович Крымов). Argentina (Buenos Aires): Seyatil (Сеятиль), 1966. First edition. IN RUSSIAN. 224 pages. 1 copy only. Vladimir Pimenovich Krymov (1878-1968) was born in...

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,...

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...

Collected Works of Zhukovsky [1912]

Собрание сочинений В.А.Жуковского (Collected Works of Zhukovsky). Saint Petersburg, 1912. Изд. Холмушина (Kholmushin). Scarce publication in fair condition. In Russian (of course). 1 copy only. Gilt titles and embossed covers. Covers worn. Edge wear to...

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. IN RUSSIAN. Covers Pushkin's life in the Lyceum, in Tsarskoye Selo, and his teachers and friends. Leningrad: Detskaya literatura (Детская литература), 1965. 272 pages. 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...

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...