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Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book

Russian Stories: A Dual-Language Book (English and Russian Language Edition). Dover Publications, 2022. Paperback, 403 pages. This dual-language volume contains 12 stories by Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Chekhov, Gogol, Turgenev, Bunin, and others. Each...

The Golden Cockerel [Pogany]

The Golden Cockerel: From the Original Russian Fairy Tale of Alexander Pushkin (Dover Children's Classics, 2013). Elaine Pogany (Author), Willy Pogany (Illustrator). Paperback, 48 pages. Full-page color images, along with striking black-and-white...

Lost Tales: Stories for the Tsar's Children

Lost Tales: Stories for the Tsar's Children. Gleb Botkin. NY: Villard; 1st edition (December 3, 1996). Foreword by Romanov biographer, Robert Massie. 86 pages, 50 color illustrations. The book includes a biographical sketch of the author-artist,...

A Thousand Years of Christianity in Ukraine

A Thousand Years of Christianity in Ukraine: An Encyclopedic Chronology. Compiled and edited by Osyp Zinkewych and Andrew Sorokowski. CA (Toronto): Smoloskyp Publishers, 1988. 312 pages. Profusely illustrated with black and white and color plates...

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...

Icons [T. Talbot Rice] 1990

Icons. Introduced by T. Talbot Rice.  Rich full-page color images of Greek and Slavic Orthodox icons on the right page with descriptive text on the left. NJ: Wellfleet Press, 1990. (A reprint of the British edition published by Studio Editions.)...

Searching for Icons in Russia [V. Soloukhin]

Searching for Icons in Russia. Vladimir Soloukin. Also known as "Black Boards" (aka "Черные Доски"). NY: Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, 1972. First American Edition. 191 pages. Illustrated. Translated from the Russian by P.S. Falla. About fine hardcover...

In Order to Please Stalin [В Угоду Сталину]

Борис Михайлович Кузнецов (подполковник). В Угоду Сталину Годы 1945-1946. (Boris Mikhailovich Kuznetsov (lieutenant colonel). (In Order to Please Stalin). Boris Mikhailovich (1892–1980) was a participant in the Civil War as part of the Volunteer...

Tragedy of the Cossacks 1940-45 RUSSIAN

Казачья трагедия. (Cossack Tragedy During 1940-45.) Н. А. Быков (N. A. Bykov). Kazachʹi︠a︡ tragedii︠a︡, 1940-1944 gg vospominanii︢a︡ rukovoditeli︠a︡ i organizatora v g. Rostove u Rostovskom okruge kazachʹego osvoboditelʹnogo na Donu dvizhenii︠a︡ protiv...

Inside Russia Today J. Gunther [1958]

John Gunther. Inside Russia. John Gunther (1901–1970) wrote a series of sociopolitical works, known as the "Inside" books, of which this is one. He grew up on the North Side of Chicago, was awarded a Bachelor of Philosophy from the University of...

Kirill Zaitsev. In memory of the last tsar. 1948 [In Russian]

Zaitsev, Kirill. In Memory of the Last Tsar: Russia and the Tsar. The secret of the identity of the Tsar. Catastrophe. Shanghai: [Dawn], 1948. 86, [2] pages. Wrappers (pamphlet) in good condition. 6¾" x 5". (17.5x13 cm). Covers worn, front page...

Reign of Emperor Nicholas II (Oldenburg) 1939-49

The Reign of Emperor Nicholas II (Царствование императора Николая II). S.S. Oldenburg. Three volumes bound together in a mid-century buckram binding. With one original printed cover at the beginning of the book. Pages have tanned. Binding is sound, hinge...

Collected Works of Zhukovsky [1912]

Собрание сочинений В.А.Жуковского (Collected Works of Zhukovsky). Saint Petersburg, 1912. Изд. Холмушина (Kholmushin). Scarce publication in fair condition. In Russian (of course). 1 copy only. Gilt titles and embossed covers. Covers worn. Edge wear to...

Flight of the Romanovs

The Flight Of The Romanovs: A Family Saga. John Curtis Perry and Constantine V. Pleshakov. A well-researched retelling of the history of the Romanovs, beginning with a young Alexander III in the 1860s, and ending with the death in 1960 of his daughter,...

Church in Many Lands: A Trip Around the World (J.J. Burke) [1915]

Fr. J. J Burke. The Church in Many Lands: A Trip Around the World [records the work of the Church in Hawaii, the Orient, Palestine, Italy & France]. John J. Burke (1875–1936) was a Paulist priest and editor of the Catholic World from 1903 to...

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...

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman. Robert Massie. NY: Random House, 2012. 672 pages. Maps, notes, bibliography, index and a reader's guide. Paperback in gently used condition. The eminent Russian history biographer Robert Massie applies his...

Peter the Great: His Life and World [Massie]

Peter the Great: His Life and World. Robert Massie. NY: Knopf, 1980. 1st edition. BOMC. 909 pages. Photos and maps, map endpapers. Some color illustrations. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Text good condition (few pages...

The Romanovs: 1613-1918

The Romanovs: 1613-1918. Well-received and well-reviewed mammoth overview of three centuries of the Romanovs by Cambridge-educated historian S. Montefiore, who combines rigorous intellectual scholarship with the storyteller talents of a novelist, which...

Journey Among Warriors [Eve Curie]

Journey Among Warriors [Eve Curie]. Eve Curie was the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, the discoverers of radium and Nobel Prize winners. As a news correspondent, her journey begins as the world is mired in war for just over two years, during which...