Monarchies

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...

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...

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...

Nicholas & Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Russia [MM]

Nicholas & Alexandra: The Last Imperial Family of Tsarist Russia. This ambitious and comprehensive book was published to accompany a landmark exhibition - "Nicholas and Alexandra: The Last Imperial...

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...

Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty [1992]

The Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty. Mikhail Iroshnikov with Liudmila Protsai and Yuri Shelayev. An early post-USSR breakup book on the lives of Nicholas II, Alexandra and their children beginning from...

Elizabeth And Leycester: A Dramatic Biography [1939]

Elizabeth And Leycester. Frederick Carleton Chamberlin. Fascinating biography of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) and her childhood friend, Robert Dudley (1532-1588), Earl of Leicester (aka Leycester). Dudley...

Elizabeth. Empress of Austria. [1936]

Elizabeth. Empress of Austria. Count Egon Caesar Corti (translated by Catherine Alison Phillips). Empress Elizabeth of Austria (1837-1898), born Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, was better known as Sissi...

Konstantin Makovsky The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris

Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris. Wendy Salmond, Wilfried Zeisler, et al. (Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens Series.) Monumental in scale and rich in exotic detail,...

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...

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...

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...

Nicholas and Alexandra [1st ed, 8th prtg]

Nicholas and Alexandra. An intimate Account of the Last of the Romanovs and the Fall of Imperial Russia. Robert K. Massie.  NY: Atheneum, 1968 [April]. First edition, 8th printing. 584 pages. Massie...

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...

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...

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...