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Royal Russia Annual #3 [2013] Paul Gilbert

Royal Russia Annual #3. A Celebration of the Romanov Dynasty & Imperial Russia in Words & Photographs. Paul Gilbert. A nice presentation by the aforementioned always tasteful Paul Gilbert of Royal Russia fame. Self-published, 2013. 128 pages with...

Peterhof. 300 Years.

Peterhof. 300 Years. Nina Vernova, Vadim Znamenov. Russia: Abris Art Publishers (The Peterhof State Museum-Reserve), 2007. 160 pages. Glossy softcover. Profusely illustrated in color. The Peterhof Palace, aka "The Russian Versailles" is a series of...

Catherine the Great: The Enlightened Empress

Catherine the Great: The Enlightened Empress. Godfrey Evans, editor. A compendium of art collected and commissioned by Catherine the Great, who, in addition to all her other accomplishments, was one of history's incomparable art patrons. The vast...

House of Faberge Masterpieces

Masterpieces from the House of Fabergé. Peter Carl Faberge, court jeweler to the czars, is a name synonymous with beauty, craftsmanship, and sumptuous excess. This exciting book blends some of the best photographs ever made of Faberge objects with...

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (Государственный музей изобразительных искусств имени А.С. Пушкина, Москва). Compiles 391 works of art that are in the museum, with notes on each. Profusely illustrated in color and black in white. RUSSIAN...

Pavlovsk: The Life of a Russian Palace [S. Massie]

Pavlovsk: The Life of a Russian Palace. Suzanne Massie. The Palace of Pavlovsk is one of the finest structures in St. Petersburg and it houses an extraordinary collection of art treasures. The construction of the palace was begun in 1777 for heir to the...

Russian Fairy Tales and Epics [1875 Facsimile]

Album of Russian Folk Tales and Epics (Альбом русских народных сказок и былин). This album is a facsimile edition of the book of 1875 was published by Logos in 1992. Twelve fairy tales and byliny's (epics). In Old Slavonic typography. Tales are: Ilya...

Monasteries of Romania [Mircea Păcurariu]

Monasteries of Romania. Mircea Păcurariu. Păcurariu (1932-2021), the son of a village priest, was a Romanian theologian, historian and also a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church. Overview of church culture profusely illustrated in color. BiblioTechii...

British Agent [Lockhart, 1934]

R.H. Bruce Lockhart. British Agent. A thrilling, autobiographical account of Lockhart's early life abroad and his eyewitness account of revolutionary Russia in Moscow in 1918. Lockhart, a Scottish diplomat posted to the Soviet Union, had such keen...

Revolution of Directors James Burnham 1954 {IN RUSSIAN]

Revolution of Directors (Революция Директоров). James Burnham. IN RUSSIAN. Burnham (1905-1987) was an American philosopher and political theorists and one of the authors of the theory of managerial revolution, according to which power in modern society...

Holy Martyr Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna Photo Album

Holy Revered Martyr Grand Duchess Elizaveta Fedorovna (Святая преподобномученица Великая Княгиня Елизавета Федоровна). This is the definitive photoalbum, extravagently designed to resemble an antique, of Grand Duchess Ella Fedorova. It consists of 185...

Intimate Papers of Colonel House [1926]

The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. From Neutrality to War, 1915-1917. Colonel Edward M. House. Edited by Charles Seymour.  Seymour arranged the diary of Edward Mandell House (1858-1938), the self-styled Colonel House (colonel in nickname only),...

Catherine the Great [1963] Zoe Oldenbourg

Catherine the Great. A biography of the woman who became Empress of all the Russias. Zoé Oldenbourg. Catherine the Great (Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg) was born in 1729 in Stettin, Pomerania, then Germany. She reigned as...

Lermontov Mtsyri (Мцыри) deluxe miniature edition

Mikhail Lermontov. Mtsyri (Мцыри). "The Novice" is a poem Lermontov (1814-1841) wrote in 1839 and first published in 1840. It was hailed as "one of the last examples of the classic Russian romantic poetry," according to the Lermontov Encyclopedia...

Ukraine History Memoir 1970 Vynnyky, Zvenyhorod Scarce

Винники, Звенигород, Унів. (Wynnyki, Zvenyhorod, Univ and Villages in Vicinity: A historical and memoiristical (sic) collection.) (Alternate title: Vynnyky, Zvenyhorod, Univ ta dovkil'ni sela.) IN UKRAINIAN. Michael Wloch wrote and self-published this...

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...

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...

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...