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Education of a Princess. A Memoir by Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia

Education of a Princess. A Memoir by Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia.  NY: Viking Press, 1931. Translated From the French & Russian under the editorial supervision of Russell Lord. Hardcover, 1st edition, 7th printing. 388 pages. Decorative map...

Early Russian Icon, 11th-16th centuries [In Russian]

Early Russian icon, 11th-16th centuries (Икона древней Руси XI-XVI вв). Book is structured around three thematic cycles: Christ, Mother of God, and Ecclesiastical History. Includes (in Russian), a prominent work by theologian and iconographer Leonid...

The Three Empresses: Catherine I, Anne, and Elizabeth of Russia

Philip Longworth. The Three Empresses: Catherine I, Anne, and Elizabeth of Russia. An interesting, perhaps not pc, look at the three women who ruled Russia in the first half of the 18th century. From the back cover: "A sot, a sadist, and a nymphomaniac"...

Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia

Oleg Tarasov. Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia. In this well-researched book, the author tackles the meaning of the Russian icon, which is a tall subject indeed. He approaches the craft of icon-making by setting into context the forms...

Uncle Tom's Cabin (Хижина дяди Тома) IN RUSSIAN

Harriet Beecher Stowe (Харриет Бичер-Стоу) Uncle Tom's Cabin (Хижина дяди Тома). Classic about the horrors of the American slave system. IN RUSSIAN. USSR: Minsk, Мастацкая Литература, 1977. Illustrations by Zaitsev. 270 pages. Hardcover, printed boards...

The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815

Alexander Mikaberidze. The Russian Officer Corps in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1792-1815. An extensively researched set of biographies of 800 senior Russian officers who commanded troops in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Each...

Day of the Russian Child 1952 (День русского ребенка)

Day of the Russian Child (День русского ребенка). Issue 19 for 1952. 367 pages, illustrated. In publisher’s illustrated covers. Published annually at for Orthodox Easter. In good condition with clear book tape repair to binding and back page...

The Golovlyov Family [Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin]

The Golovlyov Family (Господа Головлёвы).  Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (Михаил Евграфович Салтыков) (1826-1889), first published in 1880. It is regarded as a classic of Russian literature, considered to be "the gloomiest book in all Russian...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

On the views of the Russian people IN RUSSIAN

О воззрениях русского народа. Марина Михайловна Громыко, Александр Викторович Буганов. (Gromyko, Buganov: On the views of the Russian people.) Паломник, 2007. 528 pages, black and white illustrations. IN RUSSIAN. Hardcover, decorative endpapers. In near...

Russian Art at Hillwood

Russian Art at Hillwood. Katrina V. H. Taylor. The book is a concise and clearly-written presentationof the material found at Hillwood Museum. Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973), heiress to the Post Cereal fortune, owned many extraordinary and...