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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...

Revolution of Directors James Burnham 1954 {IN RUSSIAN]

Revolution of Directors (Революция Директоров). James Burnham. IN RUSSIAN. Burnham (1905-1987) was an American philosopher and political theorists and one of the authors of the theory of managerial revolution, according to which power in modern society...

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...

Paradise Lost and Regained by John Milton [IN RUSSIAN]

John Milton. Paradise Lost and Regained (Потерянный и Возвращенный Рай). IN RUSSIAN. Poems of John Milton with illustrations of Gustav Dore. Inscription stamped in red ink in Russian "from the president of the publishing house "Evangelical Word" Mukhina,...

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...

Russian Icons (Русские иконы) [IN RUSSIAN]

Russian Icons (Русские иконы). Natalia Valentinovna Budur (Наталия Валентиновна Будур). RUSSIAN EDITION. The book recounts the origins of the icon, the church and iconostas, the iconographic canons and symbolism of Russian Orthodox icons, different...

Novodevichy Convent Guide Book [1974]

Novodevichy Convent. A Guide Book. (Новодевичий монастырь. Путеводитель).  An elegant small hardcover published in 1974 in four languages (Russian, English, French and German) with photos and diagrams of this most important Orthodox cloister in...

Chilandar: On the holy mountain (Хиландар: На светој гори).

Chilandar: On the holy mountain (Хиландар: На светој гори). Dimitrije Bogdanovici. Beograd: Jugoslavia Revija: 1978. IN SERBIAN. 221 pages. 1st Serbian language edition. Large format hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover. Map...

The Russian Peasantry. Stepniak [1905]

The Russian Peasantry: Their Agrarian Condition, Social Life & Religion. S. Stepniak. Sergei Mikhailovich Stepniak-Kravchinskii (Сергей Михайлович Степняк-Кравчинский) (1851-1895) went by Sergius Stepniak in 19th-century London revolutionary circles...

Painting and miniatures of Moscow in the mid-15th century [IN RUSSIAN]

Painting and miniatures of Moscow in the mid-15th century (Живопись и миниатюра Москвы середины XV-начала ХVI века). Gennady Viktorovich Popov (Попов, Г.В.). RUSSIAN EDITION. Popov examines the development of Moscow icon painting during the 15th and...

Ukraine History Memoir 1970 Vynnyky, Zvenyhorod Scarce

Винники, Звенигород, Унів. (Wynnyki, Zvenyhorod, Univ and Villages in Vicinity: A historical and memoiristical (sic) collection.) (Alternate title: Vynnyky, Zvenyhorod, Univ ta dovkil'ni sela.) IN UKRAINIAN. Michael Wloch wrote and self-published this...

Church Culture of St. Petersburg [English text]

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...

The Greeting Card in Russia (XIX century)

The Greeting Card in Russia (End of the XIX Century to beginning of the XX Century). Yuri Kombolin, author, editor and introduction. English translation by Kiesa Malen and Chelsea Ray. Greeting cards appeared in Russia at the end of the 19th century...