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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...

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...

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...

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...

Life in the Church [Pokrov, Chicago] 1953 RARE

Жизнь В Церкви (Life in the Church). Издание св. Покровской Православной Общины Чикаго. The Russian Orthodox Church in Chicago began in a two-story house on 2141 West Pierce Avenue in 1949, under the auspices of Archpriest Vladimir Glindski. A makeshift...

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...

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...

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...

Law of God (Закон Божий) IN RUSSIAN

Archpriest Seraphim Slobodskoy. Закон Божий for Family and School.  Explains Preliminary Concepts, Prayers, the Old Testament, the New Testament, On the Christian faith and life, and On the worship of the Orthodox Church. Published by Holy Trinity...

Before the Revolution: St. Petersburg in Photographs: 1890-1914

Before the Revolution: St. Petersburg in Photographs: 1890-1914. Mikhail Pavlovich Iroshnikov. Four distinguished historians set out to evoke the daily life of St. Petersburg just when it was witnessing the last moments of its imperial glory and,...

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...

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...

Guide to Russian Reference Books [Hoover Institute, 1962]

Guide To Russian Reference Books Volume I. Compiled by Karol Maichel and edited by John Simon and Gabriel Simmons. Stanford University: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. 1962. 1st (original) edition. 92 pages. Hardcover, blue cloth...