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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...

Tobolsk Museum Reserve

Tobolsk Museum-Reserve (Тобольский музей-заповедник). Yu. S. Nadtochy (Ю. С. Надточий). Sverdlovsk: Mid-Urals Publishing House (Средне-Уральское книжное изд-во), 1988.  Tobolsk, an old city founded in 1590 in Tyumen Oblast, is the second-oldest...

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...

Autobiography of John Hays Hammond [1935]

The Autobiography of John Hays Hammond. Volume II. NY: Farrar, Rinehart, 1935. First edition. Green cloth hardcover, gilt title on front cover, gilt titles on spine (not very visible due to sunning). Illustrations, bibliography and an extensive index...

Kyra Petrovskaya [1961]

Kyra Petrovskaya (1918-2018) was a Russian-American actress and author. Her autobiography chronicles Russian history from 1920 to the present day. She was descended from nobility, had a stage career in Russia, and ultimately survived the Siege of...

The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles [2019]

The Compatriots: The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia's Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad. Andrei Soldatov, Irina Borogan. NY: Public Affairs, 2019. 384 pages. Hardcover, dustjacket, brand new. 1 copy only. A frank look at the bloody...

Kiev-Pechersk Patericon IN RUSSIAN

Патерик Киево-Печерский. Том 1. Подвижники Киево-Печерской лавры XI-XV в. И древние святые, причисляемые к ее чудотворцам. (Patericon of Kiev-Pechersk. Volume 1. Devotees of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra of the XI-XV centuries. And the ancient saints counted...

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...

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.)...

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). IN RUSSIAN.  A documentary work of historical significance dedicated to the forced extradition...

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...

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 K. Massie. NY: Knopf, 1980. 1st edition. 909 pages. Illustrated with 24 pages of photos, including 8 in color and 13 maps, as well as map endpapers. Hardcover with very good unclipped dustjacket in a clear...