Monarchies

Peter the Great: His Life and World [Massie]

Peter the Great: His Life and World. Robert Massie. NY: Knopf, 1980. 1st edition. BOMC. 909 pages. Photos and maps, map endpapers. Some color illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Text good condition (few pages...

The Romanovs: 1613-1918

The Romanovs: 1613-1918. Well-received and well-reviewed mammoth overview of three centuries of the Romanovs by Cambridge-educated historian S. Montefiore, who combines rigorous intellectual scholarship with the storyteller talents of a novelist, which...

Journey Among Warriors [Eve Curie]

Journey Among Warriors [Eve Curie]. Eve Curie was the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, the discoverers of radium and Nobel Prize winners. As a news correspondent, her journey begins as the world is mired in war for just over two years, during which...

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 only to the Romanovs. His family owned four palaces...

The Native's Return (Louis Adamic) 1934

Louis Adamic. The Native's Return: An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia And Discovers His Old Country. An autobiography and historical travel guide in three parts: Home Again in Carniola, The Coast and Mountain Regions, Belgrade and Croatia and a...

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 the late 1800s. Contents include The Coronation, The...

Elizabeth And Leycester: A Dramatic Biography [1939]

Frederick Carleton Chamberlin. Elizabeth And Leycester. Fascinating early 20th century biography of Elizabeth I (1533-1603) and her childhood friend, Robert Dudley (1532-1588), Earl of Leicester (aka Leycester). Chamberlin sweepingly documents "the...

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 (aka Sisi) and was the wife of Austrian Emperor...

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, Konstantin Makovsky's stunning paintings epitomize the...

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, Shoumatoff collected their stories and reminiscences  as...

Peter The Great [H. Lamb, 1948]

The City And The Tsar. Peter The Great And The Move To The West (1748-1762). Harold Albert Lamb's (1892-1962) prose is direct and fast-paced, well-researched and accurate to the time period. This is one of Lamb's scarcer titles. (A good synopsis of his...

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 her husband, a White Army officer, and as members of the...

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 intense courtship and first joyful years of marriage...