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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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  • The Romanovs and Mr. Gibbes. London: Short Books, 2002. 1st edition. 12mo hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. 125 pages.

    The Romanovs and Mr. Gibbes

    The Romanovs and Mr. Gibbes. Frances Welch. Sydney Gibbes was the tutor to the children of Tsar Nicholas II from 1908, and over the next six years lived as one of the family in the royal palace. In this biography, Frances Welch draws on unpublished...
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  • Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia: New Martyr of the Communist Yoke. Lubov Millar.. NY (Richfield Springs): Nikodemos Orthodox Publication, 2009. 6th edition, revised with many new photos (more than 40 in all) and additional source material. Acknowledgements, author's notes, appendices, list of letter, genealogy, bibliography.

    Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia: New Martyr [2009]

    Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia: New Martyr of the Communist Yoke. Lubov Millar. Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia was a German princess of the House of Hesse-Darmstadt, and the wife of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, the fifth son of...
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  • Spala, the Royal Residence. Poland: Wydawnictwo CEL Konstancin-Jeziorna, 2011. Quarto hardcover, pictorial boards. 144 pages. 131 archival photographs, never-published documents, and a wealth of fascinating facts.

    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...
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  • 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 Imperial State. Footnotes, a bibliography of the author's works, and an index.

    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...
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  • GA (Athens}: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2013. 230 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Royal purple illustrated endpapers, many full color and black and white illustrations.

    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...
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  • Golden Ring: Old Towns Around Moscow. Fiodor Kudriavtsev. USSR (Leningrad): Aurora Art Publishers, 1974. 230 pages, 117 illustrations. Text is in both English and Russian. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Map endpapers. Near fine condition, no ownership marks. Photo-filled overview of historic sites in and around Moscow, including Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Suzdal, Zagorsk (today Sergiev Posad), Bogoliubovo, Kostroma, and many more.

    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...
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  • Henri Troyat. Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982. First edition, stated. Hardcover with dustjacket in clear jacket cover. 336 pages. Near fine in an about fine jacket.

    Alexander of Russia {Henri Troyat] 1st ed

    Henri Troyat. Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982. First edition, stated. Hardcover with dustjacket in clear jacket cover. 336 pages. Near fine in an about fine jacket. In Paris and London, the crowds hailed him as the...
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  • 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.

    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...
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  • Sunlight at Midnight [W. Bruce Lincoln]

    Sunlight at Midnight [W. Bruce Lincoln]

    Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia. W. Bruce Lincoln. Blurb from the bookjacket: "The city of St. Petersburg has encompassed all that Russians are and all that they hope to become. Home to Peter and Catherine the Great, it...
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  • All Was Not Lost: Journey of a Russian Immigrant from Riga to Chicagoland. Anatoly Bezkorovainy. A first-person account of a Russian immigrant's life story. Beginning in the Russian Empire, the narrative follows the author's parents who ended up in Latvia following the Bolshevik revolution, continues through World War II years in Latvia, Germany and post-war DP camps, and ends in the US. Bezkorovainy explores his Russian ethnicity and his Orthodox faith, including a valuable history of Russian immigration and the Orthodox Church in the US.

    Journey of a Russian Immigrant [A. Bezkorovainy]

    All Was Not Lost: Journey of a Russian Immigrant from Riga to Chicagoland. Anatoly Bezkorovainy. A first-person account of a Russian immigrant's life story. Beginning in the Russian Empire, the narrative follows the author's parents who ended up in...
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  • The Imperial Tea Party. Family, politics and betrayal: the ill-fated British and Russian royal alliance. Frances Welch. Covers three extraordinary meetings two vastly  different royal dynasties that took place from 1894 to 1917. The Tsar and Tsarina complained bitterly about the weather when staying at Balmoral; while British courtiers were later in their turn full of criticisms about the Russians’ hospitality, from the food to the music to the slow service. An entertaining book filled with well researched diary and first person accounts.

    The Imperial Tea Party

    The Imperial Tea Party. Family, politics and betrayal: the ill-fated British and Russian royal alliance. Frances Welch. Covers three extraordinary meetings of two vastly different royal dynasties that took place from 1894 to 1917. The Tsar and Tsarina...
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  • The House of Special Purpose: An Intimate Portrait of the Last Days of the Russian Imperial Family. Compiled from the papers of Charles Sydney Gibbes (1876-1963). By J. C. Trewin (editor). An eyewitness description of the last years and final days of the ill-fated Romanovs. From 1908, Gibbes served as the English tutor to the children of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II.

    The House of Special Purpose

    The House of Special Purpose: An Intimate Portrait of the Last Days of the Russian Imperial Family. Compiled from the papers of Charles Sydney Gibbes (1876-1963). By J. C. Trewin (editor). An eyewitness description of the last years and final days of...
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  • Russian Art at Hillwood. Katrina V. H. Taylor. The book is a concise and clearly-written presentationof the material found at Hillwood Museum. Majorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post Cereal fortune, owned many extraordinary and world-class items. The chapters cover the following categories: painting, Faberge, Faberge's contemporaries, gold boxes, niello, kovschi (distinctively Russian decorative drinking vessels), chalices, porcelain from the Imperial Factory and private factories, glass and ivory.

    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...
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