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New York: Doubleday Doran, 1942. Hardcover, 192 pp. with illustrations Condition: very good, minor defects of book cover/ Currier and Ives was a New York City printmaking business operating from 1835 to 1907. Founded by Nathaniel Currier, the company designed and sold inexpensive hand-painted lithographic works based on news events, views of popular culture and Americana. The book depicts the work of Currier & Ives through their early days. Numerous beautiful photos plates. Perfect for any art lover or collector.

Berlin: Sportverlag, 1983. 254 pp. Book in German.

London: Harvard University Press, 1990. Binding: Hardcover Pages: 192 Harvard Slavic Studies (Cambridge, Mass.), V. 6. From the preface: "My first serious encounter with Mandelstam's poetry took place over forty years ago in Prague, where I was spending the summer of 1931, having just completed my sophomore year at the Law School of Belgrade University. There, in the famous Slavic bookstore in Wenceslaus Square, I happened upon the first edition of "Tristia" (1922)-which, strange though it may seem today, had not yet sold out, despite the fact that only three thousand copies had been printed. Until then, I was familiar with only a few of Mandelstam's poems, published in various anthologies; reading "Tristia" prompted me to search out the other two books of his poetry. Thus, I discovered his unique poetic world, whose fascination was to remain strong for the rest of my life. Though taken with the "music" of his verse and his exquisite imagery, I was annoyed with my inability to understand the… Read More

Elsewhere Editions, 2023. New Book. Hardcover. 80 pp. Illustrated by Marjana Prokhasko. Translated from Ukrainian by Boris Dralyuk and Jennifer Croft. INCLUDED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES LIST OF BEST CHILDREN'S BOOKS OF 2023 Twin moles, Purl and Crawly, are born on the first day of spring. The newest members of their woodland world, they're curious about everything. What is swimming? How do we get better when we're sick? Do animals live in the sea? Why do grownups eat smelly cheese? What happens when we die? Every day is filled with another adventure as Purl and Crawly explore the peculiar characters that surround them in the forest. Home is always waiting for them, filled with the clacking of father's typewriter, the sound of mother playing her upright bass, and the smells of quince jam and medicinal moss brews. During their adventures outside the home, they learn that the world is sometimes scarier and stranger than it seemed from the pocket of their father's coat. Each new encounter leaves Purl and… Read More

New York: Pantheon Books, 1963. Hardcover, dust jacket, 214 pp. Fantastic Stories is a collection of six short stories written by Soviet author Andrei Sinyavsky under the pseudonym Abram Tertz between 1955 and 1961, first published by Pantheon Books in 1963. The stories are titled "At the Circus", "The Graphomaniacs", "The Tenants", "You and I", "The Icicle", and "Phkents". All of the fantastic tales are written in the style of "fantastic realism", which combines phantasmagorical art with socialist realism.

Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1992. Paperback. 80 pp. Little Jinx is a canny mockery of the Soviet world. Its author, Andrei Sinyavsky, a respectable member of the USSR's Institute for World Literature, was exposed in 1965 as the real author of a series of irreverent essays and fantastic tales that had been circulating under the nom de plume Abram Tertz. After five years in a labor camp he immigrated to Paris. Little Jinx is the tale of a man named Sinyavsky, a literary hack and runt who clumsily survives repression and anti-Semitism but also brings misery to those around him. When this "little jinx" inadvertently causes the death of his five brothers, he is consumed by a guilt that seems universal in his society.

Москва: Сигма-пресс, 1996. Переплет: Твердый Страниц: 1200, с иллюстрациями Словарь содержит более 40 000 слов и словосочетаний с толкованиями значений и примерами употребления в современной английской речи, а также дает много информации грамматического, лексического и этимологического характера. Предназначен для изучающих английский язык на продвинутом этапе и преподавателей английского языка. Издание на английском языке.

Harper, 2021. New Book. Paperback. 304 pp. The Amur River is almost unknown. Yet it is the tenth longest river in the world, rising in the Mongolian mountains and flowing through Siberia to the Pacific. For 1,100 miles it forms the tense border between Russia and China. Simmering with the memory of land-grabs and unequal treaties, this is the most densely fortified frontier on earth. In his eightieth year, Colin Thubron takes a dramatic journey from the Amur's secret source to its giant mouth, covering almost 3,000 miles. Harassed by injury and by arrest from the local police, he makes his way along both the Russian and Chinese shores, starting out by Mongolian horse, then hitchhiking, sailing on poacher's sloops or travelling the Trans-Siberian Express. Having revived his Russian and Mandarin, he talks to everyone he meets, from Chinese traders to Russian fishermen, from monks to indigenous peoples. By the time he reaches the river's desolate end, where Russia's nineteenth-century imperial dream… Read More

Harper Perennial, 2008. New Book. Paperback. 400 pp. A land of enormous proportions, countless secrets, and incredible history, Central Asia was the heart of the great Mongol empire of Tamerlane and scene of Stalin's cruelest deportations. A remote and fascinating region in a constant state of transition--never more so than since the collapse of the Soviet Union--it encompasses terrain as diverse as the Kazakh steppes, the Karakum desert, and the Pamir mountains. In The Lost Heart of Asia, acclaimed, bestselling travel writer Colin Thubron carries readers on an extraordinary journey through this little understood, rarely visited, yet increasingly important corner of the world.

London: Unicorn, 2018. Hardcover. 278 pp. Few artists are as well-known as Carl Fabergé (1846-1920)-his name alone conjures up images of his brilliantly ornate egg artworks. Wherever his works are shown, whether at exhibitions or in auction rooms, they delight and awe viewers. ;This book tells the story of Fabergé and his work as jeweler to the Russian imperial court-but it goes beyond that. To make his incredibly ornate creations, Fabergé required support-lots of it. Without countless other people working behind the scenes, including designers, master goldsmiths, and silversmiths, Fabergé's business could not have flourished. Fabergé: His Masters and Artisans lifts these craftsmen into the limelight, not only because their work deserves our attention, but because the captivating stories of their lives and careers add appreciably to what is known of the working processes at Fabergé's studio. Ulla Tillander-Godenhielm also explores jewelry manufacturing methods, touches on the company's well… Read More

Interlink Books, 2022. New Book. Paperback 240 pp. Salt & Time will transform perceptions of the food of the former Soviet Union, and especially Siberia--the crossroads of Eastern European and Central Asian cuisine--with 100 inviting recipes adapted for modern tastes and Western kitchens, and evocative storytelling to explain and entice. Why not try the restorative Solyanka fish soup (a famous Russian hangover cure), savor the fragrant Chicken with prunes or treat yourself to some Napoleon cake. In Alissa Timoshkina's words: "Often we need distance and time, both to see things better and to feel closer to them. This is certainly true of the food of my home country, Russia--or Siberia, to be exact. When I think of Siberia, I hear the sound of fresh snow crunching beneath my feet. Today, whenever I crush sea salt flakes between my fingers as I cook, I think of that sound. In this book, I feature recipes that are authentic to Siberia, classic Russian flavor combinations and my modern interpretations.… Read More

Oxford University Press, USA, 2017. New Book. Hardcover. 408 pp. Before Russia invaded Ukraine, it invaded Georgia. Both states are part of Russia's near abroad - newly independent states that were once part of the Soviet Union and are now Russia's neighbors. While the Russia-Georgia war of 2008 faded from the headlines in the wake of the global recession, the geopolitical contest that created it did not. Six years later, the spectre of a revanchist Russia returned when Putin's forces invaded and annexed the Crimean peninsula, once part of Russia but an internationally recognized part of Ukraine since the Soviet collapse. Crimea's annexation and follow on conflict in eastern Ukraine have generated the greatest geopolitical crisis on the European continent since the end of the Cold War. In Near Abroad, the eminent political geographer Gerard Toal moves beyond the polemical rhetoric that surrounds Russia's interventions in Georgia and Ukraine to study the underlying territorial conflicts and… Read More

Riverhead Books, 2022. New Book. Hardcover. 992 pp. In the mid-eighteenth century, as new ideas--and a new unrest--begin to sweep the Continent, a young Jew of mysterious origins arrives in a village in Poland. Before long, he has changed not only his name but his persona; visited by what seem to be ecstatic experiences, Jacob Frank casts a charismatic spell that attracts an increasingly fervent following. In the decade to come, Frank will traverse the Hapsburg and Ottoman empires with throngs of disciples in his thrall as he reinvents himself again and again, converts to Islam and then Catholicism, is pilloried as a heretic and revered as the Messiah, and wreaks havoc on the conventional order, Jewish and Christian alike, with scandalous rumors of his sect's secret rituals and the spread of his increasingly iconoclastic beliefs. The story of Frank--a real historical figure around whom mystery and controversy swirl to this day--is the perfect canvas for the genius and unparalleled reach of Olga… Read More

Letchworth: Bradda Books, 1975. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 44 For Intermediate Russian Learners. With introduction, vocabulary and notes.

New York: Vintage, 2007. New Book. Paperback 1296 pages From the award-winning translators of Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov comes this magnificent new translation of Tolstoy's masterwork. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read War and Peace broadly focuses on Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812 and follows three of the most well-known characters in literature: Pierre Bezukhov, the illegitimate son of a count who is fighting for his inheritance and yearning for spiritual fulfillment; Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, who leaves his family behind to fight in the war against Napoleon; and Natasha Rostov, the beautiful young daughter of a nobleman who intrigues both men. A s Napoleon's army invades, Tolstoy brilliantly follows characters from diverse backgrounds - peasants and nobility, civilians and soldiers - as they struggle with the problems unique to their era, their history, and their culture. And as the novel progresses, these characters transcend… Read More

Penguin Group, 2009. New Book. Paperback. 608 pp. Leo Tolstoy's last completed novel, Resurrection is an intimate, psychological tale of guilt, anger and forgiveness, translated from the Russian with an introduction and notes by Anthony Briggs in Penguin Classics. Serving on the jury at a murder trial, Prince Dmitri Nekhlyudov is devastated when he sees the prisoner - Katyusha, a young maid he seduced and abandoned years before. As Dmitri faces the consequences of his actions, he decides to give up his life of wealth and luxury to devote himself to rescuing Katyusha, even if it means following her into exile in Siberia. But can a man truly find redemption by saving another person? Tolstoy's most controversial novel, Resurrection (1899) is a scathing indictment of injustice, corruption and hypocrisy at all levels of society. Creating a vast panorama of Russian life, from peasants to aristocrats, bureaucrats to convicts, it reveals Tolstoy's magnificent storytelling powers. Anthony Briggs' superb… Read More

New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. New Book. Binding: Paperback 880 pp. Many believe Anna Karenina to be the greatest novel ever written. The impossible and destructive triangle of Anna, her husband Karenin, and her lover Vronsky, is set against the marriage of Levin and Kitty, illuminating the most important questions which beset humanity. This edition uses Louise and Aylmer Maude's classic translation.

Letchworth: Bradda Books, 1975. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 251 Перепечатка издания "Детской литературы" с рисунками К.Клементьевой 1970го года. For Intermediate Russian Learners.

Everyman's Library, 1992. New Book. Among the great novels of the world, 'War and Peace' has long held pride of place because it fulfills, in its seamless interweaving of the historical and the personal, and its genius in registering the entire scale of human life, all the promise latent in the art of fiction itself. Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame. Aylmer Maude (1858-1938) and Louise Maude (1855-1939) were English translators of Tolstoy's works, and Aylmer Maude also wrote his friend Tolstoy's biography. After living many years in Russia the Maudes spent the rest of their life in England translating Tolstoy's writing and promoting public interest in his work.

Penguin Group, 2017. New Book. Hardcover 1440 pages Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was born in central Russia. After serving in the Crimean War, he retired to his estate and devoted himself to writing, farming, and raising his large family. His novels and outspoken social polemics brought him world fame. Anthony Briggs (translator) has written, translated, or edited twenty books in the fields of Russian and English literature. Orlando Figes (introduction) is the prizewinning author of A People's Tragedy and Natasha's Dance. He is a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the New York Review of Books. A stunning clothbound Hardcover Classics edition of Tolstoy's great novel, one of the undisputed masterpieces of world literature. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read At a glittering society party in St. Petersburg in 1805, conversations are dominated by the prospect of war. Terror swiftly engulfs the country as Napoleon's army marches… Read More