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Day of the Russian Child 1952 (День русского ребенка)

Day of the Russian Child (День русского ребенка). Issue 19 for 1952. 367 pages, illustrated. In publisher’s illustrated covers. Published annually at for Orthodox Easter. In good condition with clear book tape repair to binding and back page...

The Golovlyov Family [Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin]

The Golovlyov Family (Господа Головлёвы).  Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (Михаил Евграфович Салтыков) (1826-1889), first published in 1880. It is regarded as a classic of Russian literature, considered to be "the gloomiest book in all Russian...

Treasures From the Palaces of Old Russia, Hammer Galleries 1936

Treasures From the Palaces of Old Russia. Hammer Galleries, Inc. 12.5 x 9" catalog. 16 numbered pages between beige textured covers with a red Imperial double-headed eagle in the center surrounded by Art Deco framing. Two locations: 682 Fifth Avenue, New...

Photographs from Imperial St. Petersburg

Elizaveta Shelaeva. Photographs from Imperial St. Petersburg.  A richly illustrated photographic journey of old St. Petersburg, which, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was the capital of Imperial Russia. The Russia of the Tsars is on...

Photographs For The Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography Of Sergey Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky

Robert Allshouse. Photographs For The Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography Of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin Gorskii. An astonishing view of Old Russia just before the takeover by the Bolsheviks. Tsar Nicholas II commissioned color photographs from...

Boris Godunov [Pushkin, Zworykin & Ustinov]

Boris Godounov. Alexander Pushkin. Boris Zworykin. Introduction by Peter Ustinov. An exquisite fusion of the epic drama written by Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837), Modest Mussorgsky's (1839-1881) epic operatic composition, and Boris Zvorykin's (1872-1942)...

Aivazovsky 1817-1900 [IN RUSSIAN]

AIVAZOVSKY 1817-1900 (АЙВАЗОВСКИЙ 1817-1900). Valery Pilipenko (Валерей Пилипенко). Folio art book with excellent color reproductions of Russian marine painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. Monograph essay details Aivazovsky's connections with...

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...

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,...

Anton Chekhov: A Brother's Memoir

Anton Chekhov: A Brother's Memoir. Mikhail Chekhov shares his memories and insights, while transporting readers into the world of the Chekhov family. He visits the places where his brother lived and worked and introduces the people he knew and loved,...

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...

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...

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...

Spala, the Royal Residence

Spala, the Royal Residence (Spala, carska rezydencja). Svetlana Chestnykh, Karen L. Kettering, Michal Sloniewski. A group of historians from three countries joined forces to find and save traces of an almost unknown world of Imperial Russian hunting and...

Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule [Wortman]

Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule (Imperial Russia). Richard Wortman. Academic Studies Press, 2013. [Abridged edition.] 332 pages. 12 scholarly articles by Wortman organized by Monarchy and Law, Family and Nation, Monarch and Nation, Monarchy and...

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...

Golden Ring: Old Towns Around Moscow [1974]

Golden Ring: Old Towns Around Moscow. Fiodor Kudriavtsev. Photo-filled overview of historic sites in and around Moscow, including Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Suzdal, Zagorsk (today Sergiev Posad), Bogoliubovo, Kostroma, and many more. USSR (Leningrad): Aurora...

On the views of the Russian people IN RUSSIAN

О воззрениях русского народа. Марина Михайловна Громыко, Александр Викторович Буганов. (Gromyko, Buganov: On the views of the Russian people.) Паломник, 2007. 528 pages, black and white illustrations. IN RUSSIAN. Hardcover, decorative endpapers. In near...

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...