Biographies and Memoirs

Memoirs of the Pages to the Tsars

Memoirs of the Pages to the Tsars. Thomas E. Berry, translator and editor. The history of the Corps des Pages in Russia dates back to the days of Peter the Great. Included are remembrances from...

Memoirs of Nicky and Alix [2016]

Memoirs of Nicky and Alix. Translations from the Russian by Sergei Viatchanin. A free-wheeling, non-chronological compilation of letters and diary entries that allows readers a rare opportunity to...

When Lovers Ruled Russia {1928]

When Lovers Ruled Russia. V. Poliakoff. NY: D. Appleton, 1928. 284 pages. Hardcover, purple linen cloth covers, gold embossed titles and eagle.12 illustrations, index. Text is unmarked, no ownership...

Catherine the Great [1963] Zoe Oldenbourg

Catherine the Great. A biography of the woman who became Empress of all the Russias. Zoé Oldenbourg. Catherine the Great (Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg) was born in 1729 in...

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...

Nicholas II: The Last Tsar [Photobiography]

Marvin Lyons. Edited by Andrew Wheatcroft. Nicholas II: The Last Tsar. This was one of the first, and is still one of the best, photobiographies on the remarkable life of Tsar Nicholas II and his...

Man Who Killed Rasputin

Greg King. The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Youssoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring Down the Russian Empire. Felix Youssoupov (aka Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov) was rich, second in wealth...

White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923

White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923. Olga Illyn. A gripping and enthralling memoir of the onset of the Russian Revolution and the path of defeat for the White Army. Illyn was a young bride and...

A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story

A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story. Andrei Maytunas and Sergei Mironenko. A Lifelong Passion begins in 1884 with the couple's first childhood meeting and chronicles their...

After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War.

After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War. From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the...

Tolstoy: The Making Of A Novelist [Crankshaw]

Tolstoy: The Making Of A Novelist. Edward Crankshaw. Crankshaw (1909-1984) was a British author who is best known for his works on Soviet history. This book on Tolstoy is one of his few titles that...

American Diplomat "Papers of Colonel House" 2 vol. [1926]

The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. From Neutrality to War, 1915-1917. Colonel Edward M. House. Edited by Charles Seymour.  Seymour arranged the diary of Edward Mandell House (1858-1938), the...

Sergei Nechaev [Russian Anarchist and Nihilist]

Sergei Nechaev. Philip Pomper. Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechaev (Сергей Геннадиевич Нечаев) (1847-1882) was an anarcho-communist and a Russian nihilist, known for his single-minded pursuit of revolution...

Royal Russia Annual #3 [2013] Paul Gilbert

Royal Russia Annual #3. A Celebration of the Romanov Dynasty & Imperial Russia in Words & Photographs. Paul Gilbert. A nice presentation by the aforementioned always tasteful Paul Gilbert of Royal...

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...

Nikolai Gogol [Nabokov]

Nikolai Gogol. Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov inverts his biography of Gogol (1809-1852)) by beginning with Gogol's death and ending with his birth. Nabokov's approach is comic, but leads to a serious...

Peter the Great: His Life and World [Massie]

Peter the Great: His Life and World. Robert K. Massie. NY: Knopf, 1980. 1st edition. 909 pages. Illustrated with 24 pages of photos, including 8 in color and 13 maps, as well as map endpapers...

Russian Blood [Memoir]

Russian Blood. In the early 1980s, Alex Shoumatoff became curious about the history of his family. At that time, both his grandmothers were in their 90s. With a heightened sense of urgency,...