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Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book

Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book (English and Russian Language Edition). Dover Publications, 2022. Paperback, 403 pages. This dual-language volume contains 12 stories by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov, Gogol, Turgenev, Bunin, and others. Each...

Semenov Catalog circa 1982

Semenov Souvenirs NOVOEXPORT USSR MOSCOW. Small color catalog from Semenov illustrating the standard matryoshka dolls in production at that time, plus additional birch bark, straw inlay and carved wood utensils.  Text in English, Russian, German and...

Russian Folk Tales: A Dual-Language Book

Russian Folktales from the Collection of A. Afanasyev: A Dual-Language Book. Dover Publications, 2022. Paperback, 240 pages. This dual-language edition features new translations of folk tales selected from the authoritative three-volume collection by...

Nutcracker Stickers

Nutcracker Sticker Activity Book. Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) was a Russian Romantic composer. One of his most beloved compositions is the Nutcracker ballet, a perennial that has been performed and re-enacted throughout the world. Now children...

The Golden Cockerel [Pogany]

The Golden Cockerel: From the Original Russian Fairy Tale of Alexander Pushkin (Dover Children's Classics, 2013). Elaine Pogany (Author), Willy Pogany (Illustrator). Paperback, 48 pages. Full-page color images, along with striking black-and-white...

The Traveler's Russia by Burton Holmes [1934]

The Traveler's Russia. Burton Holmes. NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1934. 1st edition. Many photos, illustrated color endpapers, 246 pages. Hardcover, missing dj. Beige cloth, spine sunned, some fraying to top and bottom of spine, some foxing to covers...

Last Courts of Europe: A Royal Family Album, 1860-1914

Last Courts of Europe. A Royal Family Album 1860-1914. Robert K. Massie (Introductory Text), Jeffrey Finestone (Picture Research & Descriptions). NY: The Vendome Press, 1981. 256 pages. 1st printing. Large hardcover with dustjacket. Describes...

The Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty

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 1800's. Astonishing full and half-page...

Autobiography of John Hays Hammond [1935]

The Autobiography of John Hays Hammond. Volume II. NY: Farrar, Rinehart, 1935. First edition. Green cloth hardcover, gilt title on front cover, gilt titles on spine (not very visible due to sunning). Illustrations, bibliography and an extensive index...

Kyra Petrovskaya [1961]

Kyra Petrovskaya (1918-2018) was a Russian-American actress and author. Her autobiography chronicles Russian history from 1920 to the present day. She was descended from nobility, had a stage career in Russia, and ultimately survived the Siege of...

The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles [2019]

The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad. Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan. NY: Public Affairs, 2019. 384 pages. Hardcover, dustjacket, brand new. 1 copy only. A frank look at the bloody...

Russian Emigre Politics [1951] Fischer

Russian Emigre Politics. George Fischer, editor. NY: 1951 Free Russia Fund, 1951. Limited to 200 copies. Pebbled blue cloth hardcover, no dj as issued. 112 pages, index. Fine condition, some tanning to pages.  George Fischer served in the military...

Oxford Russian Dictionary

The Oxford Russian Dictionary. Colin Howlett (Editor). Oxford University Press, NY, 1993. First Edition; large 8vo, 1,340 pages. Most comprehensive and authoritative Russian-English/English-Russian dictionary ever published, containing over 180,000 words...

Kiev-Pechersk Patericon IN RUSSIAN

Патерик Киево-Печерский. Том 1. Подвижники Киево-Печерской лавры XI-XV в. И древние святые, причисляемые к ее чудотворцам. (Patericon of Kiev-Pechersk. Volume 1. Devotees of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra of the XI-XV centuries. And the ancient saints counted...

National cuisines of our peoples (Национальные кухни наших народов)

National cuisines of our peoples (Национальные кухни наших народов). V. V. Pokhlebkin (Похлебкин, Вильям Васильевич). IN RUSSIAN. Densely packed Soviet-era compendium of history and recipes from different nationalities that were under the Soviet umbrella...

Novgorodian Icon-Painting

Novgorodian Icon-Painting (Новгородская иконопись). Viktor N. Lazarev. TEXT IN RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH. Novgorod (Великий Новгород) is one of the most important historic centers of in the 13th and 14th centuries, when most of the rest of the country was...

Lost Tales: Stories for the Tsar's Children

Lost Tales: Stories for the Tsar's Children. Gleb Botkin. NY: Villard; 1st edition (December 3, 1996). Foreword by Romanov biographer, Robert Massie. 86 pages, 50 color illustrations. The book includes a biographical sketch of the author-artist,...

A Thousand Years of Christianity in Ukraine

A Thousand Years of Christianity in Ukraine: An Encyclopedic Chronology. Compiled and edited by Osyp Zinkewych and Andrew Sorokowski. CA (Toronto): Smoloskyp Publishers, 1988. 312 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white and color plates...

Three Centuries of Russian Painting [1994]

Icons [T. Talbot Rice] 1990

ICONS. Introduced by by T. Talbot Rice. NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1990. (A reprint of the British edition published by Studio Editions.) Richly illustrated in color. Large format hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Near fine...