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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Church Culture of St. Petersburg. Viacheslav Mukhin. St. Petersburg: Ivan Fedorov, 1994. Large hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. 256 pages. Some wear to covers, text near fine. With 108 black and white illustr., and 112 in color. Text is in English.

    Church Culture of St. Petersburg

    The Church Culture of St. Petersburg. Viacheslav Mukhin. St. Petersburg: Ivan Fedorov, 1994. An exemplary exploration of the main churches, revered icons, local saints, and holy places of St. Petersburg from 1721 to 1917. Mukhin shows how the many works...
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  • Pushkin: The Man and His Age. Robin Edmonds. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 1st edition. 303 pages. Index, chronology, bibliography, chapter notes.

    Pushkin: Man and His Age (biography)

    Pushkin: The Man and His Age. Robin Edmonds. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 1st edition. 303 pages. Index, chronology, bibliography, chapter notes. 1 copy only. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin's (1799-1837) short and dramatic life is at odds with his...
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  • Tatiana Tchernavin. Escape from the Soviets. Tchcernavin (1887-1971) wrote one of the earliest accounts of escaping the Soviet Gulag system, along with her husband Vladimir V. Tchernavin. Both were arrested in the early 1930s

    Escape from the Soviets [1934]

    Tatiana Tchernavin. Escape from the Soviets. Tchernavin (1887-1971) wrote one of the earliest accounts of escaping the Soviet Gulag system, along with her husband Vladimir V. Tchernavin. Both were arrested in the early 1930s, and her husband was...
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  • Dostoevsky in portraits, illustrations, documents (Ф. М. Достоевский в портретах, иллюстрациях, документах). Edited by Vera Nechaeva. IN RUSSIAN. Large cloth hardcover missing dustjacket. Moscow: Просвещение, 1972.

    Dostoevsky in portraits, illustrations, documents [RUSSIAN]

    Dostoevsky in portraits, illustrations, documents (Ф. М. Достоевский в портретах, иллюстрациях, документах). Edited by Vera Nechaeva. IN RUSSIAN. Large cloth hardcover missing dustjacket. Moscow: Просвещение, 1972. 447 pages. 1 copy only. A detailed...
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  • Daniel Benjamin Boyce, Alexandra Loseva, Vadim Matafonov. Three Centuries of Russian Painting. Wonderfully chosen selection of well-known and unknown paintings. Text in English. Russia (St. Petersburg): Kitezh Art Publishers, 1994. 413 pages. Quarto hardcover with about fine dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover.

    Three Centuries of Russian Painting [1994]

    Daniel Benjamin Boyce, Alexandra Loseva, Vadim Matafonov. Three Centuries of Russian Painting. Wonderfully chosen selection of well-known and unknown paintings. Text in English. Notes, short bios of arists at the back. Reproductions printed on high...
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  • Marvin Lyons. Edited by Andrew Wheatcroft. Nicholas II: The Last Tsar. This was one of the first, and is still one of the best, photobiographies on the remarkable life of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, spanning the years 1870 to 1918. The London editors of the venerable Routledge and Kegan Paul publishing firm sifted through some 35,000 photos, and chose 356 black and white photos which are reproduced in this exceptional book.

    Nicholas II: The Last Tsar [Photobiography]

    Marvin Lyons. Edited by Andrew Wheatcroft. Nicholas II: The Last Tsar. This was one of the first, and is still one of the best, photobiographies on the remarkable life of Tsar Nicholas II and his family, spanning the years 1870 to 1918. The London...
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