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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...

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...

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...

War of 1812 set of 24 small posters in Russian

"Let's remember, brothers, the glory of the Russians ...": The Patriotic War of 1812. (Вспомним, братцы, россов славу….) (Комплект из 24 плакатов). Сергей Ромуальдович Серков. 24 posters in a slipcase. Color illustrations, text in Russian...

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...

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...

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...

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...