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Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America, 1914-1917

Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America, 1914-1917. Jules Witcover. An account of the circumstances and of the German plotting that surrounded the sabotage explosion at the Black Tom ammunition and explosives terminal in New York...

Last Act of a Tragedy [Alekseyev] 1996

The Last Act of a Tragedy: New Documents about the Execution of the Last Russian Emperor Nicholas II.Veniamin Vasilievich Alekseyev is a prominent historian and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Translated to English from Russian. Alekseyev's...

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 view the incredible historical events from two different...

Bookplates and Their Owners in Imperial Russia

Bookplates and Their Owners in Imperial Russia: An Illustrated Survey of Holdings at Stanford University. Marguerite Studemeister. 1990. Softcover. From the back cover: "Book ownership marks first appeared in Russia in the XVI century, and during the...

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 marks. Some foxing to paper. 1 copy only. Historical...

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 during the reigns of Paul I (1754-1801) through to Nicholas...

The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II [Slater]

The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II: Relics, Remains and the Romanovs. Wendy Slater. A fully researched and careful retelling of the gruesome deaths and subsequent rediscovery of Russia's royal family. Includes a series of essays on the myths surrounding...

Tsar: Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra [1st]

  Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra. Peter Kurth, text with photos by Peter Christopher. This lushly illustrated history relates the story of the last Romanov family in vivid detail and rare intimate and private images and photos...

Before the Revolution: St. Petersburg in Photographs: 1890-1914

Before the Revolution: St. Petersburg in Photographs: 1890-1914. Mikhail Pavlovich Iroshnikov. Four distinguished historians set out to evoke the daily life of St. Petersburg just when it was witnessing the last moments of its imperial glory and,...

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 Russia fame. Self-published, 2013. 128 pages with...

Peterhof. 300 Years.

Peterhof. 300 Years. Nina Vernova, Vadim Znamenov. Russia: Abris Art Publishers (The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve), 2007. 160 pages. Glossy softcover. Profusely illustrated in color. The Peterhof Palace, aka "The Russian Versailles" is a series of...

Catherine the Great: The Enlightened Empress

Catherine the Great: The Enlightened Empress. Godfrey Evans, editor. A compendium of art collected and commissioned by Catherine the Great, who, in addition to all her other accomplishments, was one of history's incomparable art patrons. The vast...

House of Faberge Masterpieces

Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé. Peter Carl Faberge, court jeweler to the czars, is a name synonymous with beauty, craftsmanship, and sumptuous excess. This exciting book blends some of the best photographs ever made of Faberge objects with...

The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815

Alexander Mikaberidze. The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815. An extensively researched set of biographies of 800 senior Russian officers who commanded troops in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Each...

The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II

Edvard Radzinsky. The Last Tsar: The Life and Death of Nicholas II.  Russian historian and author Radzinsky mines sources never before available to create a fascinating portrait of the last Tsar of Russia, and sets out a minute-by-minute...

Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762-1796)

Exuberance of Meaning: The Art Patronage of Catherine the Great (1762-1796). Asen Kirin (curator), et al. This companion book to an exhibition in 2013-2014 at the Georgia Musuem of Art catalogues more than 60 works of art and books, most of which...

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...

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,...

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...