Russian History and Royal Russia

From Double Eagle To Red Flag. General P.N. Krassnoff [1928]

From Double Eagle To Red Flag. Volume 2. General P.N. Krassnoff. NY: Duffield and Company, 1928. Fifth edition, stated. Translated from the second Russian edition by Erik Law-Gisiko. Part two of an historical novel about the Bolsheviks by a Don Cossack...

By God's grace [Божиею милостию] (Romanovs, 1957)

(Божиею милостию. [Париж, Высший монархический совет]). By God's grace. [Paris, Supreme Monarchical Council]. 1957, no author. IN RUSSIAN. 136 pages, many illustrations. Phototype album. Softcover version, printed on coated paper. (A hardcover version in...

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...

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...

Konstantin Makovsky The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris

Konstantin Makovsky: The Tsar's Painter in America and Paris. Wendy Salmond, Wilfried Zeisler, et al. (Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens Series.) Monumental in scale and rich in exotic detail, Konstantin Makovsky's stunning paintings epitomize the...

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 [Illustrated]

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...

History of the Russian Army and Navy in Painting

History of the Russian Army and Navy in Painting (История Русской Армии и Флота в Живописи). English and Russian edition. S. A. Vasilyev and others. Moscow, 1999. Published and edited by the Information-Spread Service. Forward by I. Sergeev (The Minister...

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...

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...