Books NEW ARRIVALS

Russian Art at Hillwood

Russian Art at Hillwood. Katrina V. H. Taylor. The book is a concise and clearly-written presentationof the material found at Hillwood Museum. Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973), heiress to the Post Cereal fortune, owned many extraordinary and...

Royal Russia: The Private Albums Of The Russian Imperial Family

James B. Lovell, Carol Townend. Royal Russia: The Private Albums Of The Russian Imperial Family. A unique compilation of 140 rare or previously unpublished photographs from the Romanovs' albums captures an intimate portrait of their private and public...

Russian Houses

Elizabeth Gaynor, Kari Haavisto, Darra Goldstein. Russian Houses. Taschen Evergreen, 1994. 287 pages. Over 300 full color photographs. Large heavy hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Unobtrusive white label on half-title page,...

Literary Russia. A Guide.

Anna Benn and Rosamund Bartlett. Literary Russia. A Guide to the authors, characters, scenes and streets. The authors trace the lives and legacies of some of Russia's foremost writers, and discusses their roles in the spiritual, political, and...

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution. Leslie Woodhead. NY: Bloomsbury USA; 2013. 1st edition. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. 304 pages. Revolution. Leslie Woodhead. NY: Bloomsbury USA;...

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...

Engraving from the Time of Peter the Great [RUSSIAN TEXT]

Engraving from the Time of Peter the Great (Гравюра Петровского Времени). M. Alexeeva. RUSSIAN TEXT. The book is the first to comprehensively cover the issues of the formation and development of engraving art in the time of Peter the Great (1700s). The...

Waltz of the Dogs [Andreyev, 1924]

Leonid Andreyev. The Waltz of the Dogs. A Play in Four Acts.  In a desolate city, a group of dogs discover the remnants of a waltz, and through their howling and whining evoke a profound emotional response from the narrator. A must-read for fans of...

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...

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...

Russian Odyssey: Riches Of The State Russian Museum

Clare Murray; Vladimir Gusyev; Kenneth MacInnes; Vladimir Dorokhov; Sergei Petrov. Russian Odyssey: Riches Of The State Russian Museum. Full-color beautifully detailed catalog that documents the 300 plus objects from the State Russian Museum,...

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...

Church Culture of St. Petersburg

The Church Culture of St. Petersburg. Viacheslav Mukhin. St. Petersburg: Ivan Fedorov, 1994. An exemplary exploration of the main churches, revered icons, local saints, and holy places of St. Petersburg from 1721 to 1917. Mukhin shows how the many works...

Ten Days That Shook the World [ML #215, c. 1953].

John Reed. Ten Days That Shook the World. (The Modern Library, No. 215). Foreword by V.I. Lenin, introduction by Granville Hicks. Now classic account of the Russian revolution. Reed, immortalized on the silver screen by Warren Beatty in 1981 (Reds), was...