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City of the Poet Pushkin [1965] IN RUSSIAN

The City of the Poet (Город поэта ). Marina Basina. Leningrad: Detskaya literatura (Детская литература), 1965. 272 pages. IN RUSSIAN. Covers Pushkin's life in the Lyceum, in Tsarskoye Selo, and his teachers and friends. Hardcover with many black and...

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...

New Russia: Between the First and Second Five Year Plans [1933]

Jerome Davis, editor. Introduction by Edward M. House. The New Russia: Between the First and Second Five Year Plans. NY: John Day, 1933. First edition. Bibliography, glossary. 265 pages. An attempt on the part of a group of sociologists and economists to...

Galicia and Moldavia Travel Letters [Kelsiev]

Galicia (Galichina) and Moldavia (Moldova). Travel Letters. (Галичина и Молдавия. Путевые письма.) Vasily Ivanovich Kelsiev. (Василий Иванович Кельсиев.) IN RUSSIAN. Originally published in St. Petersburg in 1868 by V.I. Golovin. Reprinted by The...

Man Who Killed Rasputin

Greg King. The Man Who Killed Rasputin: Prince Youssoupov and the Murder That Helped Bring Down the Russian Empire. Felix Youssoupov (aka Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov) was rich, second in wealth only to the Romanovs. In 1916. his family owned four...

Glory [Vladimir Nabokov]

Vladimir Nabokov. Glory (Подвиг). Written and published in 1932 and translated by Nabokov's son, Dmitri, in 1972. It was his fifth Russian-language novel but his last to be translated into English. Somewhat autobiographical, the novel's Swiss-Russian...

In the Russian Style [J. Onassis]

Jacqueline Onassis, editor. With the Cooperation of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Introduction by Audrey Kennett. In the Russian Style.  NY: Viking Press (A Studio Book): 1976. Hardcover, 184 pages. Illustrated in black and white and color. In...

The Native's Return (Louis Adamic) 1934

Louis Adamic. The Native's Return: An American Immigrant Visits Yugoslavia And Discovers His Old Country. An autobiography and historical travel guide in three parts: Home Again in Carniola, The Coast and Mountain Regions, Belgrade and Croatia and a...

Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty [1992]

The Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty. Mikhail Iroshnikov with Liudmila Protsai and Yuri Shelayev. An early post-USSR breakup book on the lives of Nicholas II, Alexandra and their children beginning from the late 1800s. Contents include The Coronation, The...

Russian Folk Clothing Museum Collection

 L. N. Molotova, N. N. Sosnina. Russian Folk Clothing from the Collection of the State Ethnographical Museum of the People of the USSR.  Moscow: Khudoznik RSFSR, 1984. 224 pages with 219 color plates and 33 historical photographs in black...

Embroidery of All Russia

Embroidery of All Russia. Mary Gostelow. NJ (Old Tappan): Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977. 158 pages. Hardcover with dustjacket in a clear protective jacket cover.  During two trips to Russia, Gostelow was privileged to be permitted to see collections...

Russian Blood [Memoir]

Russian Blood. In the early 1980s, Alex Shoumatoff became curious about the history of his family. At that time, both his grandmothers were in their 90s. With a heightened sense of urgency, Shoumatoff collected their stories and reminiscences  as...

Peter The Great [H. Lamb, 1948]

The City And The Tsar. Peter The Great And The Move To The West (1748-1762). Harold Albert Lamb's (1892-1962) prose is direct and fast-paced, well-researched and accurate to the time period. This is one of Lamb's scarcer titles. (A good synopsis of his...

Rasputin [Memoir by his daughter]

Rasputin: The Man Behind the Myth (A Personal Memoir). Maria Rasputin and Patte Barham. A colorful account of Grigori Rasputin (18969-1916) by his daughter, Maria Grigorievna (1898-1977). She draws on stories that were told to her by her father, her...

Aivazovsky, Marine Painter (1817-1900)

Aivazovsky - 1817-1900. Compiled and Introduced by Nikolai Novouspensky. Translated from the Russian by Richard Ware. Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a prolific painter who lived and worked in Crimea. He is most famous for his marine paintings. His...

White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923

White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923. Olga Illyn. A gripping and enthralling memoir of the onset of the Russian Revolution and the path of defeat for the White Army. Illyn was a young bride and her husband, a White Army officer, and as members of the...

A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story

A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story. Andrei Maytunas and Sergei Mironenko. A Lifelong Passion begins in 1884 with the couple's first childhood meeting and chronicles their intense courtship and first joyful years of marriage...