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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...

Russian Fairy Tales [Bilibin]

Russian Folk Tales. Illustrated by Ivan I. Bilibin. Translated by Robert Chandler. The seven tales, in English, are Ivan Tsarevich, The Grey Wolf, and the Firebird; Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka; Fenist the Falcon; Marya Morevna; The White...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Searching for Icons in Russia [V. Soloukhin]

Searching for Icons in Russia. Vladimir Soloukin. Also known as "Black Boards" (aka "Черные Доски"). NY: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1972. First American Edition. 191 pages. Illustrated. Translated from the Russian by P.S. Falla. About fine hardcover...

Me and My Russian Wife 1954

Eddy Gilmore. Me and My Russian Wife. NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. 313 pages. First edition. Scarce hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Jacket is price-clipped, light wear and soil to front and spine, former owner...

In Order to Please Stalin [В Угоду Сталину]

Борис Михайлович Кузнецов (подполковник). В Угоду Сталину Годы 1945-1946. (Boris Mikhailovich Kuznetsov (lieutenant colonel). (In Order to Please Stalin). Boris Mikhailovich (1892–1980) was a participant in the Civil War as part of the Volunteer...

Pskov Icon of the 13th-16th Century

The Pskov Icon of the 13th-16th Century (Псковская Икона XIII-XVII Веков).  By Mikhail Vladimirovich Alpatov and others. Pskov, one of the oldest cities in Russia, is mentioned in 903, when Igor of Kiev married St. Olga. The...

Tragedy of the Cossacks 1940-45 RUSSIAN

Казачья трагедия. (Cossack Tragedy During 1940-45.) Н. А. Быков (N. A. Bykov). Kazachʹi︠a︡ tragedii︠a︡, 1940-1944 gg vospominanii︢a︡ rukovoditeli︠a︡ i organizatora v g. Rostove u Rostovskom okruge kazachʹego osvoboditelʹnogo na Donu dvizhenii︠a︡ protiv...

Inside Russia Today J. Gunther [1958]

John Gunther. Inside Russia. John Gunther (1901–1970) wrote a series of sociopolitical works, known as the "Inside" books, of which this is one. He grew up on the North Side of Chicago, was awarded a Bachelor of Philosophy from the University of...

Kirill Zaitsev. In memory of the last tsar. 1948 [In Russian]

Zaitsev, Kirill. In Memory of the Last Tsar: Russia and the Tsar. The secret of the identity of the Tsar. Catastrophe. Shanghai: [Dawn], 1948. 86, [2] pages. Wrappers (pamphlet) in good condition. 6¾" x 5". (17.5x13 cm). Covers worn, front page...

Reign of Emperor Nicholas II (Oldenburg) 1939-49

The Reign of Emperor Nicholas II (Царствование императора Николая II). S.S. Oldenburg. Three volumes bound together in a mid-century buckram binding. With one original printed cover at the beginning of the book. Pages have tanned. Binding is sound, hinge...

Collected Works of Zhukovsky [1912]

Собрание сочинений В.А.Жуковского (Collected Works of Zhukovsky). Saint Petersburg, 1912. Изд. Холмушина (Kholmushin). Scarce publication in fair condition. In Russian (of course). 1 copy only. Gilt titles and embossed covers. Covers worn. Edge wear to...

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...

Songs and romances of A. Merzlyakov [RUSSIAN]

Songs and romances of A. Merzlyakov (Песни и романсы А. Мерзлякова). The book is a facsimile edition of Alexey Fyodorovich Merzlyakov's collection "Songs and Romances", published by the printing house of S. Selivanovskiy, 1830. The appendix to the...