Monarchies

Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov

Jamie H. Cockfield. White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov, 1859-1919. Based on material from Russian archives, this is the first biography of Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov (1859-1919), which provides insight into...

A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra [English 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...

Pavlovsk Palace & Park

Anatoly M. Kuchumov (Author), A. Travlinsky (Translator), J. Hine (Translator). Pavlovsk Palace & Park. USSR (Leningrad): Aurora Art Publishers, 1975. 1st edition. Over 300 pages, profusely illustrated in color together with an historically...

Russian Imperial Style [Cerwinske, 1990]

Laura Cerwinske. Russian Imperial Style.  An elegant and beautifully illustrated, full-color paean to the lost world of 19th century Russia's aristocratic opulence melded with formal design. Cerwinske (1948-) focuses on eye-catching object d'art,...

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This popular book, by the popular Romanov author Helen Rappaport (b. 1947-), draws extensively on previously unseen or unpublished letters, diaries and archival sources, as...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...

Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich: Supreme Commander of the Russian Army

Paul Robinson. Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich: Supreme Commander of the Russian Army. Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich Romanov (1856–1929) was appointed to the position of commander in chief of the largest army (6 million) in the world by Nicholas...

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:...

Gardens of the Tsars

Margrethe Floryan. Gardens of the Tsars: A Study of the Aesthetics, Semantics and Uses of Late 18th Century Russian Gardens. Dr. Floryan traces the development of the Russian garden tradition during Catherine's reign in the dual context of Russian roots...

Carl Faberge Goldsmith to Imperial Russia

A. Kenneth Snowman. Carl Fabergé: Goldsmith to the Imperial Court of Russia. Peter Carl Gustavovich Fabergé (1846-1920) raised the creation of fine jewelry and fantasy objects to their highest point in history. Although he is famous for the...

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...

A Captive Of Time: My Years With Pasternak

Olga Ivinskaya. A Captive Of Time: My Years With Pasternak. Biography, autobiography and memoirs of Ivinskaya, the inspiration for "Lara", the heroine in Dr. Zhivago. Translated by Max Hayward. NY: Doubleday, 1978. 462 pages with index, source of...

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...

By God's grace [Божиею милостию] (Romanovs, 1957)

(Божиею милостию. [Париж, Высший монархический совет]). By God's grace. [Paris, Supreme Monarchical Council]. 1957, no author. IN RUSSIAN. 136 pages, many illustrations. Phototype album. Softcover version, printed on coated paper. (A hardcover version in...

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...

Flight of the Romanovs

The Flight Of The Romanovs: A Family Saga. John Curtis Perry and Constantine V. Pleshakov. A well-researched retelling of the history of the Romanovs, beginning with a young Alexander III in the 1860s, and ending with the death in 1960 of his daughter,...