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  • The Pskov Icon of the 13th-16th Century (Псковская Икона XIII-XVII Веков). Leningrad: Aurora, 1990. 323 pages. First edition. TEXT IN RUSSIAN.  Pskov, one of the oldest cities in Russia, is mentioned in 903, when Igor of Kiev married St. Olga. The first prince of Pskov was Vladimir the Great's youngest son Sudislav. In the 12th-13th centuries, Pskov aligned with the Novgorod Republic. In 1241, it was taken by the Teutonic Knights, but Alexander Nevsky recaptured it. The Pskov school of painting icons began in the 13th century by preserving Novgorod artistic traditions. It flourished in the late 14th-early 15th centuries. Pskov icon painters developed their own iconography, distinguished by the prevalence of dark-green and white-pink colors. Few from that time have survived today. Military conflicts and foreign threats helped determine the special tonality of the Pskov school, this being stronger expressions, inner dynamics, and strained images. Pskov icon painting waned after the beginning of the 17th century.

    Pskov Icon of the 13th-16th Century [IN RUSSIAN]

    The Pskov Icon of the 13th-16th Century (Псковская Икона XIII-XVII Веков). TEXT IN RUSSIAN. 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...
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  • Russian Court at Sea. Francis Welch. On 11th April 1919, less than a year after the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, the British battleship HMS Marlborough left Yalta carrying twenty members of the Russian Imperial Family into perpetual exile. They included the Tsar's mother, the Dowager Empress Marie, and his sister, the Grand Duchess Xenia, Prince Felix Youssupov (the murderer of Rasputin), and Grand Duke Nicholas, once Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Armies. As the ship prepared to set sail, a British sloop carrying 400 White Russian soldiers drew up alongside. The soldiers stood on deck and sang the Russian National Anthem. Poingnantly, the Dowager Empress stood on deck alone. According to the HMS Marlborough's First Lieutenant, nobody dared to approach her. The Russian Court at Sea vividly recreates this unlikely voyage, with its bizarre assortment of warring characters and its priceless cargo of treasures including rolled-up Rembrandts and Faberge eggs.

    Russian Court at Sea

    Russian Court at Sea. Francis Welch. On 11th April 1919, less than a year after the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, the British battleship HMS Marlborough left Yalta carrying twenty members of the Russian Imperial Family into perpetual...
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  • Tolstoy: The Making Of A Novelist. Edward Crankshaw. Crankshaw (1909-1984) was a British author who is best known for his works on Soviet history. This book on Tolstoy is one of his few titles that doesn't involve politics. Illustrated by a wealth of portraits, prints, drawings, photographs and documents. NY: Viking (Studio Press), 1974. 276 pages. First edition.

    Tolstoy: The Making Of A Novelist [Crankshaw]

    Tolstoy: The Making Of A Novelist. Edward Crankshaw. Crankshaw (1909-1984) was a British author who is best known for his works on Soviet history. This book on Tolstoy is one of his few titles that doesn't involve politics. Illustrated by a wealth of...
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    Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Neil Cornwell, editor. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998. First edition pre-Routledge printing. 974 pages. Hardcover, printed boards. Ex-libris sticker of L.Nelson Bell Library inside front cover. Overall near fine. Books weighs 7 pounds.

    Reference Guide to Russian Literature [Cromwell, 1994]

    Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Neil Cornwell, editor. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998. First edition pre-Routledge printing. 974 pages. Hardcover, printed boards. Ex-libris sticker of L.Nelson Bell Library inside front cover...
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    Set of Three Fairy  and Folk Tale Books. Includes Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Turnip, and The Wild Geese. Each book is fully illustrated in color on each page. About 14 pages each. Approximately 8"x 10". In English. Published in 1992.

    Russian Fairy Tales Book Set

    Set of Three Fairy  and Folk Tale Books. Includes Tale of Tsar Saltan, The Turnip, and The Wild Geese. Each book is fully illustrated in color on each page. About 14 pages each. Approximately 8"x 10". In English. Published in 1992 by a matryoshka...
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  • Russian Architecture and the West. Dmitry Shvidkovsky. Yekaterina Shorban, photographs, Antony Wood, translation. The author develops history of Russian architecture over the past thousand years as a part of the history of Western architecture. Dmitry Shvidkovsky, Russia's leading architectural historian, departs from the accepted notion that Russian architecture developed independent of outside cultural influences and describes how the influence of the West extends back to the tenth century and continues into the present. He offers compelling assessments of all the main masterpieces of Russian architecture and frames a radically new architectural history for Russia. The book systematically analyses Russian buildings in relation to developments in European art, pointing out where familiar European features are expressed in Russian projects. Special attention is directed toward decorations based on Byzantine models- the heritage of Italian master builders and carvers- the impact of architects and others sent by Elizabeth I- the formation of the Russian Imperial Baroque- the Enlightenment in Russian art- and 19th- and 20th-century European influences. With over 300 specially commissioned photographs of sites throughout Russia and western Europe, this is a magnificent and beautiful book.

    Russian Architecture and the West

    Russian Architecture and the West. Dmitry Shvidkovsky. Yekaterina Shorban, photographs, Antony Wood, translation. The author develops history of Russian architecture over the past thousand years as a part of the history of Western architecture. Dmitry...
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  • The Greeting Card in Russia (End of the XIX Century to beginning of the XX Century). Yuri Kombolin, author, editor and introduction. English translation by Kiesa Malen and Chelsea Ray. Greeting cards appeared in Russia at the end of the 19th century. Major artists who contributed to this genre include E. Bem, L. Bakst, I. Bilibin, and N. Roerich, among others. The illustrations of 300 antique postal cards are from the private collection of Yu.Kombolin. A unique collection of rarities.  Russia (St. Petersburg): Trade House Konstantin, 1994. 8-page history of the greeting card, descriptive catalogue. Hardcover, pictorial boards. Illustrated endpapers.

    The Greeting Card in Russia (XIX century)

    The Greeting Card in Russia (End of the XIX Century to beginning of the XX Century). Yuri Kombolin, author, editor and introduction. English translation by Kiesa Malen and Chelsea Ray. Greeting cards appeared in Russia at the end of the 19th century...
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  • Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra. Peter Kurth (text), Peter Christopher (photos).  MA (Boston): Little, Brown and Company, 1995. 229 pages. Stated first edition hardcover with an unclipped ($60) dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Photo reproduction endpapers. Introduction by Edvard Radzinsky, acknowledgments, credits, bibliography.

    Tsar: Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra [1st]

      Tsar: The Lost World of Nicholas and Alexandra. Peter Kurth, text with photos by Peter Christopher. This lushly illustrated history relates the story of the last Romanov family in vivid detail and rare intimate and private images and photos...
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  • Sixty Five Songs (English and Russian Edition). English Translations by Eve Shapiro, Musical arrangements, selection and editing by Vladimir Frumkin.  Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (Булат Шалвович Окуджава) (1924-1997) was a poet and singer-songwriter with a large following. Second only to Vladimir Vyssotsky, Okudzhava, though born in Moscow, was of Georgian-Armenian ancestry. He is credited as one of the founders of the Russian/Soviet genre known as "author song" ("авторская песня"). His output consists of nearly 200 songs, set to his own poetry. His songs are a mixture of Russian poetic and folks song traditions as well as the French chansonnier style (think: Georges Brassens). Somewhat scarce book.

    65 Songs Bulat Okudzhava (English/Russian Edition)

    Sixty Five Songs (English and Russian Edition). English Translations by Eve Shapiro, Musical arrangements, selection and editing by Vladimir Frumkin.  Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava (Булат Шалвович Окуджава) (1924-1997) was a poet and singer-songwriter...
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  • John Milton. Paradise Lost and Regained (Потерянный и Возвращенный Рай). IN RUSSIAN. Poems of John Milton with illustrations of Gustav Dore. Inscription stamped in red ink in Russian "from the president of the publishing house "Evangelical Word" Mukhina, M.P." Translated from English into Russian using the 1896 edition.

IL (Wheaton): 1995. 316 pages. Pictorial covers hardcover with all gilt edges (deluxe edition).

    Paradise Lost and Regained by John Milton [IN RUSSIAN]

    John Milton. Paradise Lost and Regained (Потерянный и Возвращенный Рай). IN RUSSIAN. Poems of John Milton with illustrations of Gustav Dore. Inscription stamped in red ink in Russian "from the president of the publishing house "Evangelical Word" Mukhina,...
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  • Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy, 1939-1942. David J. Dallin. Soviet foreign policy during these early war years was initially a pragmatic strategy of isolationism and territorial expansion, as shown by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that enabled the division of Poland and spheres of influence in Eastern Europe. However, this strategy collapsed with Germany's invasion of the USSR in June 1941, after which Soviet policy shifted to an alliance with the democratic powers, and joining the Allied forces against Nazi Germany.  CT (New Haven): Yale University Press, 1942. Scarce 1st edition

    Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy, 1939-1942

    Soviet Russia's Foreign Policy, 1939-1942. David J. Dallin. Soviet foreign policy during the early war years started as a pragmatic isolationist strategy, which included territorial expansion, as shown by the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that enabled the...
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  • Moscow: Treasures and Traditions (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service). W. Bruce Lincoln, Olga Gordeeva, John Bowlt, other authors. The rich Moscow artistic legacy and the effects of various political, social and religious changes on the city's creative climate over the past 500 years are recorded here in 12 essays by primarily Russian curators and academics. Topics include the capital's cultural heritage from the 1300s, the influence of European and Oriental styles on the traditional clothing of Moscow, Russian art from 1910 onward, painting, metalwork, jewelry, porcelain and armor.

    Moscow: Treasures and Traditions

    Moscow: Treasures and Traditions. (Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service). W. Bruce Lincoln, Olga Gordeeva, John Bowlt, other authors. The rich Moscow artistic legacy and the effects of various political, social and religious changes...
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  • Treasures from the Kremlin. NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1979. First edition. 224 pages, 206 illustrations (106 plates in full color), bibliography, index of Russian names.

    Treasures from the Kremlin [1979]

    Treasures from the Kremlin. Polly Cone & John P. O'Neill (Editor), A.S. Nasibova (Foreword) and E.S. Sizov wih colleagues of the State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin. (Full Title: Treasures from the Kremlin: An Exhibition from the State Museums of the...
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  • Nikolai Gogol. Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov inverts his biography of Gogol (1809-1852)) by beginning with Gogol's death and ending with his birth. Nabokov's approach is comic, but leads to a serious examination of Gogol, including his literary irrationality, as well as his peculiar life. Nabokov wrote this critical study of Gogol in and around 1944 based on lectures Nabokov delivered while teaching Russian Literature at Wellesley College (MA).

    Nikolai Gogol [Nabokov]

    Nikolai Gogol. Vladimir Nabokov. Nabokov inverts his biography of Gogol (1809-1852)) by beginning with Gogol's death and ending with his birth. Nabokov's approach is comic, but leads to a serious examination of Gogol, including his literary...
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  • Against the Current. Archpriest Sergey Shukin. This is a unique and personal account of a Russian Orthodox priest, who, in his youth witnessed the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Revolution of 1917. It is a true story of those who were forced underground, struggling together to maintain their Christian faith without compromise under the Soviet regime and later as displaced persons in Europe, America and elsewhere. It serves as a timely warning, an inspiring memoir and an example of spiritual steadfastness for all believers, especially those who find themselves living in oppressive circumstances during times of wars and tribulations.

    Against the Current [Archpriest S. Shukin]

    Against the Current. Archpriest Sergey Shukin. This is a unique and personal account of a Russian Orthodox priest, who, in his youth witnessed the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Revolution of 1917. It is a true story of those who were forced...
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  • Suzanne Massie. Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia.  Massie (1931-2025), an important authority on Russia, played a leading role in the relations between the USA, specifically during the Reagan years, and the Soviet Union in the final years of the Cold War. Written in a colorful and engaging style, Massie documents Russian history and describes art from the time of Vladimir and the Russian Orthodox Church to just before the Russian Revolution. An important and highly readable reference on Russian history from 987 to 1917 through a Western perspective. Her husband, Robert Massie (1929-2019), is the author of Nicholas & Alexandra, another classic.

    Land of the Firebird [Massie]

    Suzanne Massie. Land of the Firebird: The Beauty of Old Russia.  Massie (1931-2025), an important authority on Russia, played a leading role in the relations between the USA, specifically during the Reagan years, and the Soviet Union in the final...
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