Biographies and Memoirs

Death of A Romanov Prince

Death of A Romanov Prince. Terry Boland and Arturo E. Beéche. Full title: Death of a Romanov Prince - Prince Oleg Konstantinovich’s Promising Life and Early Death. The author's well researched book describes in detail the brief life of...

Romanovs Under House Arrest

The Romanovs Under House Arrest: From the 1917 Diary of a Palace Priest. Fr Afanasy Belyaev, whose diary forms the core of this work, served as chaplain and father confessor to the Russian Imperial family during the period of Tsar Nicholas' abdication...

Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason [Pipes]

The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia. Richard Pipes. Sergei Degaev (1857-1921), a political terrorist in tsarist Russia, disappeared after participating in the assassination of the chief of Russia's security organization in 1883...

The Romanovs and Mr. Gibbes

The Romanovs and Mr. Gibbes. Frances Welch. Sydney Gibbes was the tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II from 1908, and over the next six years lived as one of the family in the royal palace. In this biography, Frances Welch draws on unpublished...

Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia: New Martyr [2009]

Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia: New Martyr of the Communist Yoke. Lubov Millar. Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia was a German princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the fifth son of...

Alexander of Russia {Henri Troyat] 1st ed

Henri Troyat. Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982. First edition, stated. Hardcover with dustjacket in clear jacket cover. 336 pages. Near fine in an about fine jacket. In Paris and London, the crowds hailed him as the...

The House of Special Purpose

The House of Special Purpose: An Intimate Portrait of the Last Days of the Russian Imperial Family. Compiled from the papers of Charles Sydney Gibbes (1876-1963). By J. C. Trewin (editor). An eyewitness description of the last years and final days of...

Royal Russia: The Private Albums Of The Russian Imperial Family

James B. Lovell, Carol Townend. Royal Russia: The Private Albums Of The Russian Imperial Family. A unique compilation of 140 rare or previously unpublished photographs from the Romanovs' albums captures an intimate portrait of their private and public...

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution. Leslie Woodhead. NY: Bloomsbury USA; 2013. 1st edition. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. 304 pages. Revolution. Leslie Woodhead. NY: Bloomsbury USA;...

A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra [UK edition]

Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko, editors. A Lifelong Passion: Nicolas and Alexandra, Their Own Story. Translated from original documents by Darya Galy. British edition. A Lifelong Passion begins in 1884 with the couple's first childhood meeting...

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

Helen Rappaport. Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses. This popular book, by the popular Romanov author Helen Rappaport (b. 1947-), draws extensively on previously unseen or unpublished letters, diaries and archival sources, as...

Biography of Empress Marie Fedorovna

Coryne Hall. Little Mother of Russia: A Biography of Empress Marie Fedorovna (1847-1928). Empress Marie Feodorovna, consort of the next-to-last Tsar of Russia (Alexander III, father of Nicholas II). A daughter of the king of Denmark, Marie exchanged the...

Memoirs of Count Bernstorff [1936]

Memoirs of Count Bernstorff. Translated from the German by Eric Sutton. Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff (1862-1939) was a German ambassador, politician, and all-around prime mover and shaker in the early 20th century. His father, Albrecht Graf von...

A Russian Princess Remembers

Ekaterina Meshcherskaya. A Russian Princess Remembers. The mesmerizing, well-written and harrowing memoirs of a Russian princess, her family and her 19th century life, and who survived the Russian revolution by staying in her home country. NY:...

Alexandra Kollontai. Lonely Struggle of the Woman Who Defied Lenin.

Alexandra Kollontai. The Lonely Struggle of the Woman Who Defied Lenin. Cathy Porter. NY: Dial Press, 1980. Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was the only woman in Vladimir Lenin's government. She was the first woman to be a cabinet minister, and the...

Pushkin: Man and His Age (biography)

Pushkin: The Man and His Age. Robin Edmonds. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 1st edition. 303 pages. Index, chronology, bibliography, chapter notes. 1 copy only. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin's (1799-1837) short and dramatic life is at odds with his...

Alexander of Russia {Henri Troyat]

Henri Troyat. Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror. 1982. Paperback, part of the Grove Great Lives Series. 336 pages. Used, like new. Touch of wear at the extremities, sound binding, no names or writing. In Paris and London, the crowds hailed him as...

Escape from the Soviets [1934]

Tatiana Tchernavin. Escape from the Soviets. Tchernavin (1887-1971) wrote one of the earliest accounts of escaping the Soviet Gulag system, along with her husband Vladimir V. Tchernavin. Both were arrested in the early 1930s, and her husband was...

Autobiography of John Hays Hammond [1935]

The Autobiography of John Hays Hammond. Volume II. NY: Farrar, Rinehart, 1935. First edition. Green cloth hardcover, gilt title on front cover, gilt titles on spine (not very visible due to sunning). Illustrations, bibliography and an extensive index...

Kyra Petrovskaya [1961]

Kyra Petrovskaya (1918-2018) was a Russian-American actress and author. Her autobiography chronicles Russian history from 1920 to the present day. She was descended from nobility, had a stage career in Russia, and ultimately survived the Siege of...