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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...

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...

Literary Russia. A Guide.

Literary Russia. A Guide to the authors, characters, scenes and streets. Anna Benn and Rosamund Bartlett. The authors trace the lives and legacies of some of Russia's foremost writers, and discusses their roles in the spiritual, political, and...

B.K. Zaitsev. Moscow: [Portraits and sketches]

B.K. Zaitsev. Moscow: [Portraits and sketches]. Б.К. Зайцев. Москва: [Портреты и эскизы]. Moscow is a collection of memoir essays about pre-revolutionary Moscow, first published in 1939 in Paris. I. Bunin, L. Andreev, P. Yartsev, V. Bryusov, and other...

Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America, 1914-1917

Sabotage at Black Tom: Imperial Germany's Secret War in America, 1914-1917. Jules Witcover. An account of the circumstances and of the German plotting that surrounded the sabotage explosion at the Black Tom ammunition and explosives terminal in New York...

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...

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...

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...

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...

American Diplomat "Papers of Colonel House" 2 vol. [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),...

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...

Chronicle of the Vladimir Region/Second Chronicle of Novgorod IN RUSSIAN

Complete collection of Russian chronicles. IN RUSSIAN. Volume 30. Two 16th century chronicles from the series "Complete collection of Russian chronicles" ("Полное собрание русских летописей"). 1) The Chronicle of the Vladimir Region (Владимирский...

KROKODIL USSR Satirical Illustrated Humor Magazine 5 mags from 1959

5 vintage Krokodil (Крокодил) magazines from the 1950s. A nice set of illustrated Soviet satirical humor mags published in Moscow and part of the PRAVDA newspaper family. Additionally included is a hardcover book published in 1983 (not shown) titled...

Sergei Nechaev [Russian Anarchist and Nihilist]

Sergei Nechaev. Philip Pomper. Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechaev (Сергей Геннадиевич Нечаев) (1847-1882) was an anarcho-communist and a Russian nihilist, known for his single-minded pursuit of revolution by any means necessary, including revolutionary terror...

Rare and extraordinary history of holy Russia [Gustav Dore]

The rare and extraordinary history of holy Russia. Gustave Dore. With over 500 illustrations. The legendary French artist and illustrator, Gustav Dore (1832-1883), originally published this devastatingly satirical look at Russian history - an obvious...

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...

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...