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Novels of Turgenev 12v set 1890s [Incomplete]

The Novels Of Ivan Turgenev. 13 volumes of 15. A mix of similarly printed and bound editions printed in London by William Heinemann and in New York by Macmillan and Company. All of the books indicate Macmillan in gilt on the bottoms of the spines...

Riddles of Russian People - Sadovnikov [IN RUSSIAN]

Riddles of the Russian people. A collection of riddles, questions, parables and tasks. Compiled by Dmitry N. Sadovnikov (1847-1883). Introductory article, editing and notes by V.P. Anikin. Dmitry Nikolayevich was a Russian poet, folklorist and...

The Humour of Russia Voynich [1895]

The Humour of Russia. Selected and translated by Ethel Lilian Voynich, with an introduction by S. Stepniak. Illustrations by Paul Frénzeny. Contents include stories by Gogol, Gorbounov, Ostrovsky, Uspensky, Dostoyevsky, Schedrin, Slepstsyov and...

Russkiy Povar (Русский Повар) IN RUSSIAN Vintage

Russkiy Povar (Русский Повар). IN RUSSIAN. Explore and learn classic emigre recipes such as Potato Salad, Herring (Селедка), Beet Vinaigrette (Винигрет Обыкновенный), Cucumber Salad, and much, much more! Chapters on Appetizers (Закуски), Soups, Sauces,...

Escape from the Soviets [1934]

Tatiana Tchernavin. Escape from the Soviets. Tchernavin (1887-1971) wrote one of the earliest accounts of escaping the Soviet Gulag system, along with her husband Vladimir V. Tchernavin. Both were arrested in the early 1930s, and her husband was...

From Double Eagle To Red Flag. General P.N. Krassnoff [1928]

From Double Eagle To Red Flag. Volume 2. General P.N. Krassnoff. NY: Duffield and Company, 1928. Fifth edition, stated. Translated from the second Russian edition by Erik Law-Gisiko. Part two of an historical novel about the Bolsheviks by a Don Cossack...

Tobolsk Museum Reserve

Tobolsk Museum-Reserve (Тобольский музей-заповедник). Yu. S. Nadtochy (Ю. С. Надточий). Sverdlovsk: Mid-Urals Publishing House (Средне-Уральское книжное изд-во), 1988.  Tobolsk, an old city founded in 1590 in Tyumen Oblast, is the second-oldest...

Russian Wonder Tales [1957]

Russian Wonder Tales Containing Twelve Of The Famous Bilibin Illustrations In Color. Post Wheeler. Foreword by editor (Wheeler). Best loved tales include Tsar Saltan, Vasilissa the Beautiful, Fire Bird, Fenist the Falcon, Marya Morevna, Frog Tsarevna, as...

Dostoevsky in portraits, illustrations, documents [RUSSIAN]

Dostoevsky in portraits, illustrations, documents (Ф. М. Достоевский в портретах, иллюстрациях, документах). Edited by Vera Nechaeva. IN RUSSIAN. Large cloth hardcover missing dustjacket. Moscow: Просвещение, 1972. 447 pages. 1 copy only. A detailed...

By God's grace [Божиею милостию] (Romanovs, 1957)

(Божиею милостию. [Париж, Высший монархический совет]). By God's grace. [Paris, Supreme Monarchical Council]. 1957, no author. IN RUSSIAN. 136 pages, many illustrations. Phototype album. Softcover version, printed on coated paper. (A hardcover version in...

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...

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...

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 Ukraine, Belorus, etc. (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...

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...

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...