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  • Archbishop Nathanael (Архиепископ Нафанаил). Conversations on Holy Scripture and on Faith and the Church (Беседы о Священном Писании и о вере и Церкви). Set of 5 volumes.IN RUSSIAN. Published by Committee of Russian Orthodox Youth Abroad, 1991-1995. Softcovers, 1-283, 2-301, 3-351, 4-318, 5-309pp. 

"Conversations" are compiled primarily from numerous works, articles and speeches of Archbishop Nathanael, published in various foreign Russian Orthodox publications, and also include his previously unpublished works from the archives of the Synod.

    Conversations on Holy Scripture Archbishop Nathanael [IN RUSSIAN]

    Archbishop Nathanael (Архиепископ Нафанаил). Conversations on Holy Scripture and on Faith and the Church (Беседы о Священном Писании и о вере и Церкви).  IN RUSSIAN. "Conversations" are compiled primarily from numerous works, articles and speeches...
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  • Monasteries and Convents of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad: An Historical Review. George Seide. English translation by Theophilos Lasswell. Munich: Monastery of Saint Job of Pochaev. 210 pages. Standard paperback in very good condition. illustrations and a bibliography.

    Monasteries and Convents of ROCOR [1990]

    Monasteries and Convents of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad: An Historical Review. George Seide. English translation by Theophilos Lasswell. Munich: Monastery of Saint Job of Pochaev. 210 pages. Standard paperback in very good condition. illustrations...
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    Kremlin Gold: 1000 Years of Russian Gems and Jewels. Joel A. Bartsch. With forewords by Irina Rodimtseva, Truett Latimer, and John W. McCarter, Jr.  NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2000. 1st edition. 310 illustrations, 244 in full color, quarto hardcover, pictorial covers.

    Kremlin Gold: 1000 Years of Russian Gems and Jewels

    Kremlin Gold: 1000 Years of Russian Gems and Jewels. Joel A. Bartsch. With forewords by Irina Rodimtseva, Truett Latimer, and John W. McCarter, Jr. The sumptuous book published by the king of art books (Abrams) is a companion volume to a major American...
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  • Victoria Lebedeva. Boris Kustodiev: The Artist and His Work. Translated from the Russian by Christopher English. Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (1878-1927) was born on Shrove Tuesday, in Astrakhan. "Maslenitsa", or "Shrovetide", became one of his favorite themes, and one of his more well-known paintings. This, as well as other paintings, including the “Russian types " series, "Vegetables Merchant", "Baker" ("Булочник"), "Sailor and His Girl" ("Матрос и милая"), "Mashka. Merchant's Daughter" ("Машка. Купеческая дочь"), "Merchant's Wife Drinking Tea" ("Купчиха, пьющая чай), the last another popular theme of his. Other works depicted here include theatre costume sketches, book illustrations, and prints.

Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981. 211 pages, 165 illustrations, many in color. Hardcover, pictorial covers.

    Boris Kustodiev: The Artist and His Work

    Victoria Lebedeva. Boris Kustodiev: The Artist and His Work. Translated from the Russian by Christopher English. Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (1878-1927) was born on Shrove Tuesday, in Astrakhan. "Maslenitsa", or "Shrovetide", became one of his favorite...
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  • FL: Dramco, 1992. 1st edition. 700 pages. Russian Heraldry and Nobility. Donald Mandich and Joseph Placek. Russian heraldry appeared much later than in most other European countries and by the late 17th century, it achieved great significance. This ambitious and comprehensive tome uses as its primary source the "General Armorial of the Noble Families of the Russian Empire" (Общий Гербовник Дворянских Родов Всеросийской Империи), originally published from 1797 to 1840 serially in 10 volumes by the Russian Government. Included is a History of Russian Heraldry and its structure, a comprehensive accounting of blazons of family arms and their colors, and peculiarities and differences compared to the West.

    Russian Heraldry and Nobility

    Russian Heraldry and Nobility. Donald Mandich and Joseph Placek. Russian heraldry appeared much later than in most other European countries and by the late 17th century, it achieved great significance. This ambitious and comprehensive tome uses as its...
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  • Н. Славина (N. Slavina). I. B. Chizhova. (И. Б. Чихова) USSR:‎ Khudozhnik RSFSR", 1988. IN RUSSIAN. 179 pages. Many color and black and white illustrations.

    Lomonosov Artist Nina Slavina [RUSSIAN]

    Н. Славина (N. Slavina). I. B. Chizhova. (И. Б. Чихова). Nina Pavlovna Slavina (1928-2000) worked at the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory as a celebrated artist as well as an art critic. She studied at the Leningrad Higher School of Art and Industry named...
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  • NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. 529 pages. 1st edition. Notes, selective bibliography, index. Illustrated. Travels in Siberia. Ian Frazier. A sparkling travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains. Ian Frazier (1951-) is an American writer who turns his perceptive eye on Siberia in this non-fiction travel bestseller. He writes about its history, science, economics, and politic with emphasis on famous exiles, from the well-known€ (”Dostoyevsky, Lenin, Stalin) to the lesser known (like Natalie Lopukhin, banished by the empress for copying her dresses), the Decembrists and the Mongols, and more. An interesting and compelling journey.

    Travels in Siberia [Ian Frazier]

    Travels in Siberia. Ian Frazier. A sparkling travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains. Ian Frazier (1951-) is an American writer who turns his perceptive eye on Siberia in this non-fiction travel bestseller. He writes about its history,...
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  • NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 1st edition. 270 pages. Notes, bibliography, index.  Russian popular folk beliefs and culture were a central theme in Dostoevsky's works, and folklore imagery is diffused througout his fiction. Dostoevsky and the Russian People is an extensive study and Linda Ivanits investigates the integration of Dostoevsky's religious ideas and popular folklore. She surveys the shifts in Dostoevsky's thinking about the Russian people throughout his lifetime and studies it in Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Devils, and The Brothers Karamazov.

    Dostoevsky and the Russian People

    Dostoevsky and the Russian People. Linda Ivanits. Russian popular folk beliefs and culture were a central theme in Dostoevsky's works, and folklore imagery is diffused througout his fiction. Dostoevsky and the Russian People is an extensive study and...
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  • Vladimir Soloukin. Winter Day (Зимный День). IN RUSSIAN. Includes Black Boards (Notes of a Beginning Collector) (Черные Доски) along with several other tales. Moscow: Советский Писатель, 1967. 287 pages.

    Winter Day IN RUSSIAN [V. Soloukhin]

    Vladimir Soloukin. Winter Day (Зимный День). IN RUSSIAN. Includes Black Boards (Notes of a Beginning Collector) (Черные Доски) along with several other tales (see pic of table of contents). Moscow: Советский Писатель, 1967. 287 pages. Small hardcover...
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  • Death of a Romanov Prince - Prince Oleg Konstantinovich’s Promising Life and Early Death. CA: Eurohistory, 2018. 1st edition. Hardcover with pictorial boards. No dustjacket as issued. Quarto, 240 pages. Genealogical endpapers, bibliography, index and notes. Illustrations throughout.

    Death of A Romanov Prince

    Death of A Romanov Prince. Terry Boland and Arturo E. Beéche. Full title: Death of a Romanov Prince - Prince Oleg Konstantinovich’s Promising Life and Early Death. The author's well researched book describes in detail the brief life of...
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  • Pushkin's Prose. Abram Zakharovich Lezhnev. Translated by Roberta Reeder with an introduction by Paul Debreczeny. Lezhnev ((1893-1938) was a Russian author, literary critic and writer. This is a translation of Проза Пушкина which was originally published in 1937.

    Pushkin's Prose [Abram Lezhnev]

    Pushkin's Prose. Abram Zakharovich Lezhnev. Translated by Roberta Reeder with an introduction by Paul Debreczeny. Lezhnev ((1893-1938) was a Russian author, literary critic and writer. This is a translation of Проза Пушкина which was originally...
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  • A.N. Afanasyev. Russian folk tales. IN RUSSIAN. Goslitizdat, 1957. Volume 2 only. 510 pages. Editor, preface and notes by V. Ya. Propp. Classic collection of over 100 tales in Russian. (See pics of index.)

    Russian Folk Tales, Afanasyev [IN RUSSIAN]

    A.N. Afanasyev. Russian folk tales. IN RUSSIAN. Goslitizdat, 1957. Volume 2 only. 510 pages. Editor, preface and notes by V. Ya. Propp. Classic collection of over 100 tales in Russian. (See pics of index.) Vintage printing. Hardcover, spine repaired with...
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  • The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852). IL: (University of Chicago Press), 1985 (revised edition). 259 pages and 352 pages. Translations by Constance Garnett, updated and revised by Leonard Kent, with notes and introduction. This set brings all of Gogol's fiction (except his novel Dead Souls) together in paperback. With these two volumes and a copy of Dead Souls, you will have all of Gogol's fiction.

    Gogol: Complete Tales [English]

    The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852). IL: (University of Chicago Press), 1985 (revised edition). 259 pages and 352 pages. Translations by Constance Garnett, updated and revised by Leonard Kent, with notes and...
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  • 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 account, in detective-like fashion, of his last days. One of the most compelling books on the subject and a best seller.

    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...
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  • Orthodox America 1794-1976: Development of the Orthodox Church in America. Constance J. Tarasar, John H. Erickson, editors. NY: Syosset, The Orthodox Church in America, Department of History and Archives.

    Orthodox America 1794-1976

    Orthodox America 1794-1976: Development of the Orthodox Church in America. Constance J. Tarasar, John H. Erickson, editors. A history of the Orthodox Church in America, with photographs and accounts of the growth of the churches in the United States. NY:...
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  • The Romanovs Under House Arrest: From the 1917 Diary of a Palace Priest. NY (Jordanville): The Printshop of St Job of Pochaev, 2018. Small hardcover, 136 pages. Illustration section.

    Romanovs Under House Arrest

    The Romanovs Under House Arrest: From the 1917 Diary of a Palace Priest. Fr Afanasy Belyaev, whose diary forms the core of this work, served as chaplain and father confessor to the Russian Imperial family during the period of Tsar Nicholas' abdication...
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  • Picture Tales from the Russian. Valery Carrick. NY: Frederick A. Stokes, no date (1913). 120 pages. Vertical 12mo with red cloth binding.

    Picture Tales from the Russian [1913]

    Picture Tales from the Russian. Valery Carrick. Translated by Nevill Forbes. 11 charmingly illustrated fairy and folk tales. The Gold Egg, The Little House, The Cock, the Cat, and the Fox, The Fox and the Pot, The Crane and the Heron, Snowflake, The Bun,...
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  • Treasures from the Kremlin. NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1979. First edition. 224 pages, 206 illustrations (106 plates in full color), bibliography, index of Russian names.

    Treasures from the Kremlin [1979]

    Treasures from the Kremlin. Polly Cone & John P. O'Neill (Editor), A.S. Nasibova (Foreword) and E.S. Sizov wih colleagues of the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin. (Full Title: Treasures from the Kremlin: An Exhibition from the State Museums of the...
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  • Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra. Peter Kurth (text), Peter Christopher (photos).  MA (Boston): Little, Brown and Company, 1995. 229 pages. Stated first edition hardcover with an unclipped ($60) dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Photo reproduction endpapers. Introduction by Edvard Radzinsky, acknowledgments, credits, bibliography.

    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...
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  • The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia. Richard Pipes. CT (New Haven): Yale University Press, 2003. 1st edition. Illustrations, preface, list of abbreviations, epilogue, appendix, notes, index.

    Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason [Pipes]

    The Degaev Affair: Terror and Treason in Tsarist Russia. Richard Pipes. Sergei Degaev (1857-1921), a political terrorist in tsarist Russia, disappeared after participating in the assassination of the chief of Russia's security organization in 1883...
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