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  • Picture Tales from the Russian. Valery Carrick. NY: Frederick A. Stokes, no date (1913). 120 pages. Vertical 12mo with red cloth binding.

    Picture Tales from the Russian [1913]

    Picture Tales from the Russian. Valery Carrick. Translated by Nevill Forbes. 11 charmingly illustrated fairy and folk tales. The Gold Egg, The Little House, The Cock, the Cat, and the Fox, The Fox and the Pot, The Crane and the Heron, Snowflake, The Bun,...
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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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  • 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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  • Spala, the Royal Residence. Poland: Wydawnictwo CEL Konstancin-Jeziorna, 2011. Quarto hardcover, pictorial boards. 144 pages. 131 archival photographs, never-published documents, and a wealth of fascinating facts.

    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...
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  • Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule (Imperial Russia). Richard Wortman. Academic Studies Press, 2013. [Abridged edition.] 332 pages. 12 scholarly articles by Wortman organized by Monarchy and Law, Family and Nation, Monarch and Nation, Monarchy and Imperial State. Footnotes, a bibliography of the author's works, and an index.

    Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule [Wortman]

    Russian Monarchy: Representation and Rule (Imperial Russia). Richard Wortman. Academic Studies Press, 2013. [Abridged edition.] 332 pages. 12 scholarly articles by Wortman organized by Monarchy and Law, Family and Nation, Monarch and Nation, Monarchy and...
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  • GA (Athens}: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2013. 230 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Royal purple illustrated endpapers, many full color and black and white illustrations.

    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...
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  • Golden Ring: Old Towns Around Moscow. Fiodor Kudriavtsev. USSR (Leningrad): Aurora Art Publishers, 1974. 230 pages, 117 illustrations. Text is in both English and Russian. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Map endpapers. Near fine condition, no ownership marks. Photo-filled overview of historic sites in and around Moscow, including Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Suzdal, Zagorsk (today Sergiev Posad), Bogoliubovo, Kostroma, and many more.

    Golden Ring: Old Towns Around Moscow [1974]

    Golden Ring: Old Towns Around Moscow. Fiodor Kudriavtsev. Photo-filled overview of historic sites in and around Moscow, including Yaroslavl, Vladimir, Suzdal, Zagorsk (today Sergiev Posad), Bogoliubovo, Kostroma, and many more. USSR (Leningrad): Aurora...
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  • Henri Troyat. Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982. First edition, stated. Hardcover with dustjacket in clear jacket cover. 336 pages. Near fine in an about fine jacket.

    Alexander of Russia {Henri Troyat] 1st ed

    Henri Troyat. Alexander of Russia: Napoleon's Conqueror. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982. First edition, stated. Hardcover with dustjacket in clear jacket cover. 336 pages. Near fine in an about fine jacket. In Paris and London, the crowds hailed him as the...
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  • 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.

    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...
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  • Sunlight at Midnight [W. Bruce Lincoln]

    Sunlight at Midnight [W. Bruce Lincoln]

    Sunlight at Midnight: St. Petersburg and the Rise of Modern Russia. W. Bruce Lincoln. Blurb from the bookjacket: "The city of St. Petersburg has encompassed all that Russians are and all that they hope to become. Home to Peter and Catherine the Great, it...
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  • The House of Special Purpose: An Intimate Portrait of the Last Days of the Russian Imperial Family. Compiled from the papers of Charles Sydney Gibbes (1876-1963). By J. C. Trewin (editor). An eyewitness description of the last years and final days of the ill-fated Romanovs. From 1908, Gibbes served as the English tutor to the children of the last Russian tsar, Nicholas II.

    The House of Special Purpose

    The House of Special Purpose: An Intimate Portrait of the Last Days of the Russian Imperial Family. Compiled from the papers of Charles Sydney Gibbes (1876-1963). By J. C. Trewin (editor). An eyewitness description of the last years and final days of...
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  • Russian Art at Hillwood. Katrina V. H. Taylor. The book is a concise and clearly-written presentationof the material found at Hillwood Museum. Majorie Merriweather Post, heiress to the Post Cereal fortune, owned many extraordinary and world-class items. The chapters cover the following categories: painting, Faberge, Faberge's contemporaries, gold boxes, niello, kovschi (distinctively Russian decorative drinking vessels), chalices, porcelain from the Imperial Factory and private factories, glass and ivory.

    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...
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  • Russian Houses

    Russian Houses

    Elizabeth Gaynor, Kari Haavisto, Darra Goldstein. Russian Houses. Taschen Evergreen, 1994. 287 pages. Over 300 full color photographs. Large heavy hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Unobtrusive white label on half-title page,...
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  • Anna Benn and Rosamund Bartlett. Literary Russia. A Guide to the authors, characters, scenes and streets. NY: Overlook Duckworth Press, 2007. List of authors and an index. Illustrated.

    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...
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  • How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution. Leslie Woodhead. NY: Bloomsbury USA; 2013. 1st edition. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover.

    How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin

    How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin: The Untold Story of a Noisy Revolution. Leslie Woodhead. NY: Bloomsbury USA; 2013. 1st edition. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. 304 pages. Revolution. Leslie Woodhead. NY: Bloomsbury USA;...
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  • Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko, editors. A Lifelong Passion: Nicolas and Alexandra, Their Own Story. Translated from original documents by Darya Galy. British edition.

    A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra [UK edition]

    Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko, editors. A Lifelong Passion: Nicolas and Alexandra, Their Own Story. Translated from original documents by Darya Galy. British edition. A Lifelong Passion begins in 1884 with the couple's first childhood meeting...
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  • Pavlovsk Palace & Park. USSR (Leningrad): Aurora Art Publishers, 1975. 1st edition. Over 300 pages, profusely illustrated in color together with an historically informative and fascinating text in English. Index, bibliography, and floor plans. The Palace of Pavlovsk is one of the finest structures in St. Petersburg and it houses an extraordinary collection of art treasures.

    Pavlovsk Palace & Park

    Anatoly M. Kuchumov (Author), A. Travlinsky (Translator), J. Hine (Translator). Pavlovsk Palace & Park. USSR (Leningrad): Aurora Art Publishers, 1975. 1st edition. Over 300 pages, profusely illustrated in color together with an historically...
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  • Engraving from the Time of Peter the Great (Гравюра Петровского Времени). M. Alexeeva. RUSSIAN TEXT. The book is the first to comprehensively cover the issues of the formation and development of engraving art in the time of Peter the Great (1700s). The engravings that have survived to this day are striking works of art and valuable documents on the history of Russia, in particular, on the history of military affairs, shipbuilding, and urban development.

    Engraving from the Time of Peter the Great [RUSSIAN TEXT]

    Engraving from the Time of Peter the Great (Гравюра Петровского Времени). M. Alexeeva. RUSSIAN TEXT. The book is the first to comprehensively cover the issues of the formation and development of engraving art in the time of Peter the Great (1700s). The...
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