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Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (The Romanov Dynasty)

By: Abris Art Publishers

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Abris Art Publishers: 2004

Seller ID: 2302805

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Russian text. An exceptional copy. 2004 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. A Russian-language biography of Czar Nicholas II's son Alexei Nikolavich.
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Grand Duke Dmitry Konstantinovich of Russia (The Romanov Dynasty)

By: Abris Art Publishers

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Abris Art Publishers: 2004

Seller ID: 2302806

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Russian text. An exceptional copy. 2004 Soft Cover. We have more books available by this author!. A Russian-language biography of Dmitry Konstantinovich, the son of Konstantin Nikolayevich and cousin of Alexander III.
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Catherine the Great: Life and Legend

By: Alexander, John T.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: 1989

Seller ID: 2292064

ISBN: 0195052366

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Book club edition. Edges lightly foxed, jacket lightly toned, clipped newspaper review laid in. 1989 Hard Cover. xii, [2], 418 pp. 8vo. One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, the largest territorial political unit in modern history. Portr...
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The Romanovs: Three Centuries of an Ill-Fated Dynasty

By: Almedingen, E.M.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1966

Seller ID: 2297520

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. No jacket. Smudge on rear board. 1966 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 333 pp. CONTENTS: Genealogical Table; Acknowledgments; Preface; The World They Entered; Father and Son; A Woman at the Kremlin; The First Emperor; The Ladies' Hour; 'We, Catherine the Second;' 'A Reign Fantastical;' Alexander the Blessed; The Crowned Policeman; The Liberator; The Dwarfed Titan; The World They Left; Index.
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Dersu the Trapper (Recovered Classics)

By: Arseniev, V. K.; Burr, Malcolm; Gordon, Jaimy

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, McPherson & Company: 1996

Seller ID: 2304323

ISBN: 0929701496

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

Spine lightly creased. 1996 Trade Paperback. ix, 351 pp. Vladimir Klavdievich Arseniev (1872-1930) undertook twelve major scientific expeditions between 1902 and 1930 in the Siberian Far East, and authored some sixty works from the geographical, geological, botanical, and ethnographic data he amassed. Among these, Dersu the Trapper has earned a privileged place in Russian literature. In this Russian counterpart to The Journals of Lewis and Clark and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, Arseniev combines the precise observations of a naturalist with an exciting narrative of real-life adventure....
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The White Book: Evidence, Facts, Documents - Part I: Rightless in an Alien World; Part II: Espionage and Subversion under Cover of 'Human Rights' Campaign

By: Association of Soviet Lawyers; Smirnov, L.; Modjoryan, L.; Modrzhinskaya, E.; Bannov, B.; Gorshunova, Tatyana; Grace, Yevgenia

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Progress Publishers: 1981

Seller ID: 2205906

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket lightly toned, 1/4 inch closed tear on front jacket edge. 1981 Hard Cover. 246, [2] pp. 8vo. A Cold War propaganda piece claiming the emigrants 'from the USSR to the capitalist world are oppressed and deprived of rights. It tells that freedom of the individual in the West means unemployment, social inequality, humiliation, and family tragedies. The book gives evidence of how imperialist special services make use of freedom of movement for ideological subversion and espionage against the USSR.
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A Year in Russia

By: Baring, Maurice

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Kirtas Books: 2000

Seller ID: 2283751

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

2000 Trade Paperback. xix, [1], 319, [1], 40 pp. A print-on-demand facsimile the 1907 original, which was composed mainly from letters contributed to the Morning Post during 1905, the year of the Russian Revolution.
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An Englishman in the Court of the Tsar: The Spiritual Journey of Charles Sydney Gibbes

By: Benagh, Christine

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Conciliar Press: 2000

Seller ID: 2283753

ISBN: 1888212195

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 1 inch closed internal tear along jacket spine, otherwise an excellent copy. 2000 Hard Cover. 296 pp. 8vo. Map precedes text. Set against the turbulent backdrop of the early twentieth century, this fascinating true-life account reads almost like a novel. Demoralized by the encroaching liberalism of the Anglican Church, Englishman Charles Sydney Gibbes travels abroad in a crisis of faith. Finding work as a tutor to the Russian aristocracy, his world is changed forever when he receives a personal invitation from Empress Alexandra Fedorovna to become a tutor to her children. His in...
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Last Days at Tsarskoe Selo

By: Benckendorff, Count Paul

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Canada, Gilbert's Books: 2012

Seller ID: 2304243

ISBN: 0986531081

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

2012 reissue of 1927 British edition. A fine copy. v, 153 pp. Count Paul Benckendorff, born in 1853, was the son of Count Constantine Benckendorff, minister to the Court of Wurtemberg at the time of his death, and of Princess Louise de Croy. He was educated in Paris, where Countess Benckendorff, his mother, had settled after the death of her husband. He was a cadet in the Corps des Pages at St. Petersburg, and subsequently joined the cavalry regiment of the Gardes-á-Cheval. He took part, at his own request, in the Russian-Turkish War of 1877, and was sent to the Asiatic front. After the fall...
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Memoirs of the Pages to the Tsars

By: Berry, Thomas E.; Marbach, Peter; Lyons, Marvin

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Gilbert's Royal Books: 2005

Seller ID: 2290614

ISBN: 0973783915

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

First paperback printing. Edges lightly rubbed. 2005 Trade Paperback. 283, [3] pp. The history of the Corps des Pages in Russia dates back to the days of Peter the Great. Each of his successors made changes or improvements up until the end of the monarchy in 1917. In 1759, during the reign of Empress Elizabeth, the Corps des Pages became a formal educational institution. In 1802, the Corps des Pages was given a charer by Emperor Alexander I. The Corps des Pages was a military-educational institution which prepared young men to serve the Tsar and his family at Court. Many would go on to serve i...
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Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair

By: Beschloss, Michael R.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1988

Seller ID: 2291683

ISBN: 0060155655

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Light edge wear to jacket. 1988 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Uncovers the story of Francis Gary Powers's flight in a CIA U-2 spy plane into Soviet airspace two weeks before a vital Paris summit meeting in 1960 between Eisenhower and Khrushchev.
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The Secret Road to World War II: Soviet Versus Western Intelligence, 1921-1939

By: Blackstock, Paul W.

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Quadrangle Books: 1969

Seller ID: 2289269

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Jacket spine and bottom edge of panels lightly toned, jacket very lightly rubbed, very minor tear along top edge of front jacket panel. 1969 Hard Cover. 384 pp. In this extraordinary book, Paul Blackstock, a former intelligence research specialist, reveals the story of a covert struggle between espionage agencies of Russia and the West in the years between the two world wars. Using original sources from diplomatic archives and personal papers, Mr. Blackstock traces the highlights of this secret war which culminated in the Great Purges, decimated the Soviet military command, and left Stalin in ...
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Life and Thought in Old Russia

By: Blinoff, Marthe

Price: $7.00

Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press: 1961

Seller ID: 2291690

ISBN: 0271730773

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners, ink name on front flyleaf. 1961 Hard Cover. 222 pp. 8vo. 9 1/4 x 7. CONTENTS: Preface; 1. People and Places; 2. Manners and Society; 3. Popular Beliefs and Traditions; 4. Faith and the Church; 5. Book Learning and Education; 6. Art and Esthetics; 7. National Consciousness and Ideologies; A Brief History of Russia; Chronological Tables.
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The Quest for Self-Expression: Painting in Moscow and Leningrad, 1965-1990

By: Bowlt, John E; Kornetchuk, Elena; Roberts, Norma

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Columbus Museum of Art: 1990

Seller ID: 2295902

ISBN: 0295970618

Binding: Large Softcover

Condition: Good

Spine lightly creased, crease on back corner. 1990 Large Softcover. 191 pp. Shows the variety of moods, and styles of Soviet artists.
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The Volunteer Army and Allied Intervention in South Russia 1917-1921: A Study in the Politics and Diplomacy of the Russian Civil War

By: Brinkley, George A.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press: 1966

Seller ID: 2284550

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Very good in fair jacket. Jacket spine faded, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss, tape repairs on jacket reverse, minor pencil notes on rear endpaper. 1966 Hard Cover. 446 pp. An examination of the Allied forces' relations with the Russian civil war.
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The Grand Dukes

By: Chavchavadze, David

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Atlantic International Publications: 1990

Seller ID: 2290586

ISBN: 0938311115

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Edges lightly foxed, boards lightly soiled. 1990 Hard Cover. 283, [5] pp. 8vo. A collection of biographical sketches of the 33 Romanov Grand Dukes, who were in power from 1797-1917. Includes black-and-white reproductions of portraits and photographs depicting the Grand Dukes, as well as several Russian buildings.
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The Lost Fortune of the Tsars

By: Clarke, William

Price: $7.00

Publisher: St. Martin's Press: 1995

Seller ID: 2292061

ISBN: 0312131186

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Edges lightly foxed. 1995 Hard Cover. xviii, [4], 312 pp. 8vo. Genealogical table, black-and-white photographs. After the Bolshevik murder of Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra and other members of the Russian royal family in 1918, what became of the Romanov jewels, Faberge eggs, yachts, money, gold and investments? Separating rumor from fact, Clarke, former financial editor of the London Times, provides solid answers in an inquiry that reads like a good detective mystery.
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The Romanovs

By: Cowles, Virginia

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Harper & Row: 1971

Seller ID: 2295695

ISBN: 0060109084

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Front jacket flap price clipped. 1971 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 288 pp. With colour photographs specially taken in Russia by Victor Kennett. The Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917, included some of the most bizarre, scandalous, violent and tragic figures of history. Miss Cowles, who has already published two books on the latter days of the Tsars, presents now a portrait gallery of the outstanding members of this almost incredible family, cutting away the mass of obscure and unfamiliar historical detail which surrounds them, and ...
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Romanovs Revisited, 1860-1960

By: Crips, David William

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Rosvall Royal Books: 2005

Seller ID: 2303487

ISBN: 9197567116

Binding: Large Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

No jacket. Corners of boards lightly bumped. 2005 Large Hardcover. 94 pp. A unique collection of Romanov pictures, some extracted from old and forgotten glass-plates, others from old Cabinet portraits, Postcards and private snapshots.
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Nicholas II: The Interrupted Transition

By: d'Encausse, Helene Carrere; Holoch, George

Price: $9.00

Publisher: Holmes & Meier: 2000

Seller ID: 2290590

ISBN: 0841913978

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. 2000 Hard Cover. xiii, [1], 321, [1] pp. 8vo. A biography of the last Emperor of Russia, translated into English from French historian Helene Carrere d'Encausse's 1996 original by George Holoch. d'Encausse examines Nicholas's early life, and the reasons for the Romanov dynasty's decline and ultimate demise.
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With Napoleon in Russia: The Memoirs of General de Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza

By: De Caulaincourt, Armand; Hanoteau, Jean; Libaire, George

Price: $8.00

Publisher: William Morrow & Company: 1935

Seller ID: 2303455

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

No jacket. Spine head and spine base rubbed, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1935 Hard Cover. xxiv, 422 pp. 'My notes were made everywhere, at my desk and in my camp, every day and at all times of day . . . More than once it occurred to me that this journa, written under the very eyes of the Emperor, might fall into his hands; but that reflection did not check my pen' - Armand de Caulaincourt. A unique and detailed account of Napoleon's disastrous attempt to conquer Russia. An intimate portrait of the struggling Emperor. Written by one of the highest officials of the French Empire, wh...
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Ivan the Terrible

By: De Madariaga, Isabel

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: 2005

Seller ID: 2267491

ISBN: 0300097573

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. A couple light smudges on page ridges, corners lightly pushed. 2005 Hard Cover. xxi, [1], 484, [6] pp. 8vo. Ivan IV, “the Terrible” (1533–1584), is one of the key figures in Russian history, yet he has remained among the most neglected. Notorious for pioneering a policy of unrestrained terror—and for killing his own son—he has been credited with establishing autocracy in Russia. This is the first attempt to write a biography of Ivan from birth to death, to study his policies, his marriages, his atrocities, and his disordered personality, and to link them as a coherent ...
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A Visit to St Petersburg, 1824-1825

By: de Wassenaer, Cornelie; Vinogradoff, Igor

Price: $7.00

Publisher: Michael Russell: 1994

Seller ID: 2289598

ISBN: 0859551458

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

1996 2nd printing. An exceptional copy. 1994 Hard Cover. 160 pp. 8vo. An early 19th century journal detailing a visit to St. Petersburg, written by a woman who served as maid of honour to the Princess of Orange-Nassau, youngest sister of Emperor Alexander I. Translated from the French and edited by Igor Vinogradoff.
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Russia Before the Crash

By: Dolgorouky, Stephanie

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Royalty Digest: 2000

Seller ID: 2283856

ISBN: 1905159242

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Limited edition, one of 500 copies. 2000 Hard Cover. 308 pp. 8vo. 2000 reissue of the memoirs of Princess Stephanie Dolgorouky originally published in Paris in 1926. She was the wife of Tsar Alexander II.
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Catherine the Great and the Russian Nobility: A Study Based on the Materials of the Legislative Commission of 1767

By: Dukes, Paul

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1967

Seller ID: 2283806

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Jacket rubbed and a bit toned with two small spots on rear panel, minimal pencil marginalia in first couple chapters and index, bottom corner of front jacket flap clipped, ink stamp over list price on top corner. 1967 Hard Cover. xi, [1], 268, [4] pp. 8vo. Dukes constructs a clear, analytical picture of the attitude of the nobility to the chief questions of the day. The numerous instructions and debates initiated by the Commission provide evidence of contemporary opinion on serfdom, agriculture, industry and commerce; the qualifications for noble status and the rights and privil...
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From Soviet to Putin and Back: The Dominance of Energy in Today's Russia

By: Economides, Michael J.; D'Aleo, Donna Marie

Price: $5.00

Publisher: ET Publishing: 2008

Seller ID: 2093235

ISBN: 0615194141

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Signed without inscription by Economides on front endpaper. Jacket edges rubbed. 2008 Hard Cover. x, 444 pp. 8vo. Under Vladimir Putin, Russia has taken a giant step backwards into its Soviet past, and nowhere is this more evident than in the realm of energy politics. Modern Russian politics and energy sources first oil and then both oil and gas have been inextricably connected in a way unmatched by any other major power in the history of the world. This time, however, the state is bare, without the fig leaf of legitimacy that its communist ideology once offered. One reason for ...
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Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

By: Eichar, Donnie; Gabel, J. C.; Jacobs, Nova

Price: $35.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Chronicle Books: 2013

Seller ID: 2304263

ISBN: 1452112746

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

First edition. Two inch tear on jacket rear panel previously mended with tape. 2013 Hard Cover. 288 pp. In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the incident—unexplained violent injuries, signs that they cut open and fled the tent without proper clothing or shoes, a strange final photograph taken by one of the hikers, and elevated levels of radiation found on some of their clothes—have led to decades of speculation over what really happened.
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Conspiracy Against the Tsar: A Portrait of the Decembrists

By: Eidelman, N. [Natan]; Carlile, Cynthia

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Progress Publishers: 1985

Seller ID: 2290450

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Jacket edges rubbed. 1985 Hard Cover. 293, [3] pp. 8vo. Photographic endpapers. Includes section of black-and-white photographs. In this book, the well-known Soviet historian Natan Eidelman describes Russia's first, aristocratic revolutionaries - the Decembrists, who staged an insurrection in 1825 against Tsar Nicholas I in an attempt to reform socio-economic life in Russia. The narrative focusses [sic] on a psychological portrait of the most prominent members of the Decembrist movement, on their subsequent fate, and the influence of their ideas and deeds on the generations that followed. Eide...
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Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and Family in Russia, 1861-1914

By: Engel, Barbara Alpern

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 2289561

ISBN: 0521442362

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

First edition. Minimal ink marks in text. Review letter and typed comment sheet laid in. This copy belonged to Professor Brenda Meehan of the University of Rochester, who specialized in Russian studies. 1994 Hard Cover. This book charts the personal dimensions of economic and social change by examining the significance and consequences of Russian peasant women's migration from the village to the factory and/or city in the years between the emancipation of the serfs in 1861 and the outbreak of World War I. The author uses case studies to explore the effects of urbanization and industrialization...
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Of Bygone Days: The Memoirs of an Aide-de-Camp to the Emperor Nicholas II

By: Fabritsky, Semyon S.; Lee, William

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Canada, Gilbert's Books: 2016

Seller ID: 2304242

ISBN: 192760415X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

First thus (first English translation of 1926 Russian original). A fine copy. 2016 Trade Paperback. vi, 192 pp. The time I spent with Their Majesties - over the course of many years and under varied circumstances - will always be the source of my most precious memories, and I am very happy to be able to share those memories now with a wide public. I hope at least to give an absolutely truthful account of what I saw and heard - Semyon S. Fabritsky Semyon Semyonovich Fabritsky (1874-1941) had a fascinating career during the twilight years of Imperial Russia. He began his naval career in the ver...
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