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1971"If you are interested in Russia - if you are interested in love - if indeed you are interested in humanity, then this haunting book is one to read and re-read." 416p. Book
1996Fascinating biography from her early life in Imperial Russia, education in Paris and Oxford and researches into Byzantine art with her husband David Talbot Rice. 274p. plates.bibliography.index. Book
1979The time spent with her "revolutionary" tutor opens 10-year-old Sasha's eyes to more of life in turn-of-the-century Russia than her somewhat sheltered existence had previously allowed her to experience. "Konta stis raghes"Translated into English by Edward Fenton. 113p. "Friends of Library" book stamp on ffep , else fine Book
1996At the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, almost every European nation was a monarchy, most linked by close family ties to her and Edward VII, the "uncle of Europe". Prior to the outbreak of World War I, the personal relationships of Edward, and of his successor and son, George V, flourished with the other royal families of Europe. The closeness of the European families was violently interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914, and the armistice of 1918 brought three empires, namely Germany, Austria-Hungary and Russia, crashing down. Some monarchies were strengthened, and others weakened beyond repair. In this well-researched study, John Van der Kiste has drawn upon previously unpublished material for the Royal Archives, Windsor, to show the realtionships between the crowned heads of Europe in the first part of the 20th century. His account sheds new light on foreign policy leading up to World War I. Book
1981Reports and interviews from a Greek journalist in Russia.165p [Only ONE copy found in Worldcat] Book
1984320 p. bibliography [Only ONE copy found in WorldCat] Book
1995A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia, drawn from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources, explores the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Roma, from their early appearance in the region during the Middle Ages until the present. David Crowe's study looks at the rich and diverse cultural and historical traditions of the Gypsies in each nation and region. He covers Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, the republics of the former Yugoslavia, Albania, and the states that made up the former Soviet Union. He focuses in particular on Russia, where the Gypsies have exerted a profound influence on literary and musical traditions. Crowe also explores the virulent prejudice and mistreatment that has been so much a part of the Gypsies tragic history and culminated in their losses during the Nazi Holocaust. He concludes with a close look at the revival of this prejudice and the plight of the Roma today as they struggle to redefine their role in the new worlds of post-communist Eastern Europe and Russia. 317p. bibliography. index Name of previous owner on title page, else fine Book
2013Nicola Marter was born with a gift so rare and dangerous, she kept it buried deep. When she encounters a desperate woman trying to sell a small wooden carving called "The Firebird," claiming it belonged to Russia's Empress Catherine, it's a problem. There's no proof. But Nicola's held the object. She knows the woman is telling the truth. Book
1996Catalogue of an exhibition in Moscow illustrating the routes and connections through Kiev and Rus between Scandinavia and Byzantium. "The present catalogue was financed by the Greek and Sweden Embassies" Texr in Russian, a one page summary in English, artifacts described in Russian and English,104p. Illus.[some col] Bibliography. Map in Russian. Large format [33 x 24 x 1] Book
2010The author is a Professor at the University of Toronto. The book records his early impressions on visits to Soviet Russia, Armenia and Central Asia, and his later experiences after the break-up of the Soviet Union and the social and economic changes he observed.vi, 123 p. maps [ 4 copies found in WorldCat] Book
1949"an eye-witmess account" by two US intelligence officers of Soviet activities in Romania at the end of the Second World war and the beginning of the Cold War. 287p. Book
2000Victoria Clark travelled across most of Eastern Europe to write Why Angels Fall. Having worked as a journalist in Romania, the former Yugoslavia and Russia for six years, she was fascinated by the Eastern Orthodox churches and keen to unravel their history and beliefs. To do so she journeyed from Mount Athos, to Serbia, Macedonia, Greece, Romania, Russia, Cyprus and finally Istanbul, interviewing clergy and other believers. We're treated to a series of vivid cameos, a few of whose subjects glow almost visibly with holiness, a few terrify and many show qualities rare and needed in the West. As Clark puts it, after the ancient split between eastern and western Christianity, "each side lost something it could not happily do without . at the risk of over-simplifying for the sake of clarity, western Christendom can be said to have lost its heart, eastern Christendom its mind." Her keenness to explain Orthodoxy to westerners stems from a fear that the continent is in the process of fracturing along a thousand-year-old fault line, between the Catholic and Protestant west and the Orthodox east. The book combines high quality, highly readable travel writing with a powerful mix of politics and religion. Perhaps, most of all, it demonstrates the power of history, and of different peoples' conflicting versions of history.460p.+ plates, map. bibliograpy.index Book
1970The frozen conditions of the Altai region of Siberia preserved the contents of the barrow tombs which were first excavated at Pazyryk in 1929, and later by the author from 1947-1949. In addition to metal and ceramic materials they discovered mummified bodies and finely decorated leather and textiles and carved wooden artifacts reflecting the life of the people and their horses. Translated with a preface by M.W.Thompson.340p.+ 147 B & W plates and 33 color plates, illus, bibliography, index. [NOTE A very heavy, oversized volume weighing almost 2 kg/ 4 lbs.] Book
Large 8vo (230 x 155 mm), [8], viii, xlvii, [1], 660, 20, [2] pp., corrections and omissions leaf at end, text in French and Russian, with the stamp of Don Jaime de Bourbon [Duc de Madrid, 1870-1931] on title, lacking spine, upper hinge partly cracked, from the library at Schloss Frosdorf (nr. Salzburg). Bastin, 1827-1909 published a guide to St. Petersburg in 1866, then a string of mostly philological titles mostly in France, but including "Le Verbe dans la Langue Fran?ais", 2 vols., St. Petersburg, 1896. The present works appears to be completely unrecorded, it is not listed on COPAC, OCLC or the Biblioth?que Nationale.
First edition, 8vo (225 x 140mm) xii, 708pp., half-title, engraved portrait of Peter Alexiovitz, xii, presentation inscription on first page of the text "Anne Barker - given her by Miss Eccles.", original boards, uncut, printed paper label on spine, a nice copy.
First edition, 8vo, [6], 174, [4]pp., a very good ex-library copy, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, cloth-backed boards, spine a little worn.
Small 4to, 24pp., followed by 8 page facsimile of 'Memorabilis. Et perinde stupenda de crudeli Moscovitarvm expeditione narratio, ? germanico in latinum conuersa. Dvaci. Ex typographia Iacobi Boscardi, typographi iurati Regiae Maiestatis. 1563,' large paper copy, one of 250 copies, orig. publishers green morocco-backed red boards. Provenance: With the armorial bookplate of H. E. Hirst.
First edition, 4to, 260pp., introduction in English, text in Russian, illustrs., of 1500 plus watermarks, orig. cloth, d.w.
In-8, 282p. Edition hors commerce numérotée. Avec deux cahiers photographiques hors texte.
In-8, 208p.
In-4, 283p. Illustré de 205 planches, dont 31 en couleurs et 35 dessins in-texte. A l'état de neuf.
In-8, 118p. Préface de Georges Bickel. Avec quelques illustrations dans le texte.
Gr. In-8, 314p. Exemplaire enrichi d'un envoi autographe signé de l'auteure. En parfaite condition.
Gr. in-4, 103p.. 78 familles russes photographiées dans leur intérieur par Vladimir Mishukov. Exemplaire à l'état de neuf