Russian History and Royal Russia

Konstantin Makovsky The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris

Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris. Monumental in scale and rich in exotic detail Konstantin Makovsky's stunning paintings epitomize the charm of Old Russia. The first full survey in English of the artist's career, with glorious...

White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923

White Road: A Russian Odyssey, 1919-1923. Olga Illyn. An 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 upper class...

Russian Blood

Russian Blood. In the early 1980s, Alex Shoumatoff, the author, became curious about his roots. Both his grandmothers were into their 90s, and with a sense of urgency, he collected their stories and reminiscences about life as White Russian aristocrats,...

A Lifelong Passion - Nicholas & Alexandra: Their Own Story

A Lifelong Passion - Nicholas & Alexandra: Their Own Story. Andrei Maytunas and Sergei Mironenko. Nicholas and Alexandra are brought to life through the dignity of their own unforgettable words. The authors, one a historian, the other the...

Illustrated History of the Russian Empire: The Coronation Book

N. Chakirov (editor). Illustrated History of the Russian Empire: The Coronation Book. The original lavish printing from the first, and only, edition published in 1971 by the Russian Youth Committee in NY. From the Table of Contents: On Holy Coronations,...

Last Courts of Europe: A Royal Family Album, 1860-1914

Last Courts of Europe. A Royal Family Album 1860-1914. Robert K. Massie (Introductory Text), Jeffrey Finestone (Picture Research & Descriptions). NY: The Vendome Press, 1981. 256 pages. 1st printing. Large hardcover with dustjacket. Describes...

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 second in wealth to the Romanovs. His family owned four palaces in...

The Sunset of the Romanov Dynasty

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 1800's. Astonishing full and half-page...

Russian Imperial Style [1990]

Russian Imperial Style. Laura Cerwinske. A sumptuously illustrated, full-color book re-creates the world of Russian aristocratic opulence and design, beautiful objects, and magnificent art and architecture through gorgeous pictures and rich text. Covers...

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...

Russian Emigre Politics [1951] Fischer

Russian Emigre Politics. George Fischer, editor. NY: 1951 Free Russia Fund, 1951. Limited to 200 copies. Pebbled blue cloth hardcover, no dj as issued. 112 pages, index. Fine condition, some tanning to pages.  George Fischer served in the military...

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...

Nicholas II: The Last Tsar [Photobiography]

Marvin Lyons. Edited by Andrew Wheatcroft. Nicholas II: The Last Tsar. This was one of the first, and still one of the best, photobiographies on the remarkable life of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The London editors of the venerable Routledge and...

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. Illustrated in color. Hardcover with dust jacket in a protective clear Mylar cover. Text about fine 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...

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...

Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917.

Harrison Salisbury. Black Night, White Snow: Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917. NY: Doubleday, 1978. 769 pages. Hardcover with deckle-edges. BOMC edition. A fast-paced narrative captures the rich drama of the most crucial political/historical event of the...

Rude and Barbarous Kingdom: Russia in the Accounts of Sixteenth-Century English Voyagers

Rude and Barbarous Kingdom: Russia in the Accounts of Sixteenth-Century English Voyagers. Lloyd E. Berry (Editor), Robert O. Crummey (Editor). WI (Madison): University of Wisconsin Press, 1968. Softcover, 1st edition. 391 pages, illustrations. Index,...

The Russian Worker

The Russian Worker. Victoria E. Bonnell (Editor). English translation edition of contemporary accounts of working-class life during the final decades of the Russian Empire. Written by workers and other close observers of their milieu, these five...