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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...

Artistic Ceramics of Gzhel and Skopin in the Russian State Museum [RUSSIAN]

Natalya Grigorieva. Artistic Ceramics of Gzhel and Skopin in the Collections of the State Russian Museum (Художественная Керамика Гжели и Скопина в Собраниях Государственного Русского Музея). An important reference catalog on Gzhel and Skopin ceramics in...

Andrei Rublev [IN HUNGARIAN] Illustrated folio

Gyorgy Istvan, & Nemenyi Ferenc. Rubljov [Rublev]. Kepzomuveszeti Alap, Kiadovallalata Budapest, 1973. IN HUNGARIAN (with Russian supplement). Oversize edition with images of his icons and frescoes. Approximately 60 color illustrations, unpaginated...

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...

A Merry Journey (Веселое путешествие) 1961 [IN RUSSIAN]

A Merry Journey (Веселое путешествие). Victor Pekelis (Виктор Давыдович Пекелис) (1921-1997). Illustrations by Dmitry Spiridonovich Bisti (Дмитрий Спиридонович Бисти) (1925-1990) throughout. A collection of 16 short stories in Russian, including "Smart...

Monasteries and Convents of ROCOR [1990]

Monasteries and Convents of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad: An Historical Review. George Seide. English translation by Theophilos Lasswell. Munich: Monastery of Saint Job of Pochaev. 210 pages. Standard paperback in very good condition. illustrations...

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,...

Winter Day IN RUSSIAN [V. Soloukhin]

Vladimir Soloukin. Winter Day (Зимный День). IN RUSSIAN. Includes Black Boards (Notes of a Beginning Collector) (Черные Доски) along with several other tales (see pic of table of contents). Moscow: Советский Писатель, 1967. 287 pages. Small hardcover...

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...

Russian Folk Tales, Afanasyev [IN RUSSIAN]

A.N. Afanasyev. Russian folk tales. IN RUSSIAN. Goslitizdat, 1957. Volume 2 only. 510 pages. Editor, preface and notes by V. Ya. Propp. Classic collection of over 100 tales in Russian. (See pics of index.) Vintage printing. Hardcover, spine repaired with...

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...

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...