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Nineteenth-century Higher education in 19th-c. St. Petersburg

GRIGORIEV, Vasilii Vasilievich

Imperatorskii S. Peterburgskii Universitet v techenie pervykh piatidesiati let ego sushchestvovaniia [Imperial St. Petersburg University during the First Fifty Years of its Existence]
Bezobrazov i komp., Skt. Peterburg, 1870.

Yudin's copy of this important early work on the history of one of the country's most important universities.

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Important early eyewitness description of Siberia and China

BRAND, Adam

Beschreibung der Chinesischen Reise : welche vermittelst einer zaaris. Gesandschaft durch dero Ambassadeur, Herrn Isbrand, Ao. 1693, 94 und 95 von Moscau über Groß-Ustiga... und durch die Mongolische Tartarey verrichtet worden
Hamburg, Greflinger fur Schiller, 1698.

A rich diminutive volume, with much new material on Eastern Russia and China, including Ludolf's first descriptions of Russia - scarce first edition, the Macclesfield copy.

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The birth of Ivan the Terrible's literary features

ODERBORN, Paul

Wunderbare, Erschreckliche, Unerhörte Geschichte, und wahrhaffte Historien: Nemlich, des nechst gewesenen Großfürsten in der Moschkaw Joan Basilidis, (auff ire Sprach Iwan Basilowitz genandt) Leben [Unusual, Terrifying, Extraordinary Story and Realistic Tales: Namely, the Life of Recently Deceased Grand Duke of Moscow Joan Basilidis (Called Ivan Vasilievich in Their Language)]
Gorlitz, Johan Rhambaw, 1596.

A rare but important 'russica' title, being the first biography of Ivan the Terrible. Pleasant example of an early edition.

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Ivan the Terrible's Russia

POSSEVINO, Antonio

Moscovia, et alia opera, de statu huius seculi, adversus Catholicae Ecclesiae hostes. Nunc primo in unum volumen collecta, atq. ab ipsomet auctore emendate & aucta
Birckmann, for A. Mylius, [Cologne], 1587.

Early description of Eastern Europe, Poland, the Baltic regions, and Russia/Muscovy, by a Jesuit legate of the Pope: an important and famous book on late 16th-c. Russia.

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Northern regions seen by a Russian artist

BORISOV, Aleksandr Alekseevich

U Samoedov. Ot Pingi do Karskogo moria. Putevye ocherki [Among the Samoyeds. From the Pinega river to the sea of Kars. Travel sketches]
Benke for Devrien, Skt. Peterburg, 1907.

An artist-explorer gives his impressions of his polar trip to Northern Russia.

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The first Russian painter of the Arctic

BORISOV, Aleksandr Alekseevich

Krainii sever [The Far North]
IZOGIZ, Moskva-Leningrad, 1931.

Great images due to an artist-explorer discovering the Arctic regions of Russia. Scarce, and this copy inscribed by a leading Soviet explorer.

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From Ukraine to North America, from the origins to Catherine the Great

DILTEI Filipp Genrikh – Philippe Henry DILTHEY

Opyt rossiiskoi geografii s tolkovaniem gerbov i s rodosloviem tsarstvuiushchego doma, sobrannyi iz raznyh avtorov i manuskriptov Essay géographique sur la Russie avec le blason et la généalogie de la maison regnante, compilé de différens auteurs & manuscripts
[Moskva], Imper. Mosk. Univ., 1771[-1772].

Detailed and wide-ranging description of the history, peoples and geography of the Russian empire under Catherine the Great. Very rare: only four copies outside Russia, one only in the US.

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Russian missions during the First World War

NIKOLAEV, A.M

Pol-veka tomu nazad [Half Century Ago]
Monastery Press, Montreal, for North Am. Branch of the Order of Former Russian Military, New York, 1968.

An account of Russian diplomatic missions to the West during WWI. Fine example.

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'Lord, Save Russia!'

SOLLOGUB, Apollon

Rossiia. 862-1917 [Russia]
Russia Abroad, New York, 1973.

A take on Russian history, with a large quantity of illustrations and in fine condition.

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Extra-illustrated, in a signed binding

DEMIDOFF, Anatole de [Anatolii DEMIDOV], and Denis Auguste RAFFET (artist)

Voyage dans la Russie Méridionale et la Crimée par la Hongrie, la Valachie, et la Moldavie
Auguste Bry for Gihaut Frères, Paris, [1848].

An unusual and attractive copy of this classic plate book, here with plates in various states and with contemporary provenance.

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The striking achievements of the young USSR seen from Japan

SUZUKI, Yukiyasu (editor)

Shin Roshia [New Russia]
Tokyo, Nisso Bunka Kyokai, Showa 7-8 [i.e. 1932- 1933].

Fine photographic illustrations of Soviet Russia for a Japanese audience. First edition, a complete set.

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Russia, Persia and China at the time of Peter the Great

BELL, John

Travels from St Petersburg in Russia, to Diverse Parts of Asia [to Ispahan...to Pekin through Siberia...from Mosco to Derbent in Persia... A Journey from St. Petersburg to Constantinople]
Glasgow, for the author by Robert and Andrew Foulis, 1763.

The preferred first edition in the Quarto format; with the folding map of Siberia up to China.

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With news from the American Revolution in the hands of a Russian woman

[ALMANAC] – RUMOVSKII, Sergei (editor), Login BAKMEISTER and others

Mesiatsoslov na leto ot rozhdestva khristova 1782 [Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1782]
Imper. Akad. Nauk, Skt. Peterburg, [1781].

An attractive example of this extremely rare almanac, unusually preserving its gilt floral wrappers and presenting notes of its contemporary Russian female owner. With an overview of national and international events, including American ones in the aftermath of the independence.

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With gold chromolithography

PETROV-ROPET, Ivan (artist)

Obiavlenie o Koronovanii Nikolaia II i Aleksandry Fedorovny 14 maia 1896g [Announcement of the Coronation of Nicholas II and Alexandra Feodorovna on 14 May 1896]
A.A. Levenson, Moskva, [1896].

Beautiful broadside for the coronation of Russia's last tsar, very decorative and in very good condition.

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A future Gulag camp - printed in Arkhangelsk

CHEREPANOV, V. (publisher)

Vidy Mestnostei Solovetskogo Monasteria [Views of the Solovetskii Monastery and its Environs]
V. Cherepanov, Arkhangelsk, 1884.

A lovely work showing many views of a great Orthodox monastery, and future Soviet camp. Printed in a major port of the White Sea.

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Early days

GAMEL, I. [Joseph Christian HAMEL]

Anglichane v Rossii v XVI i XVII stoletiiakh [Englishmen in Russia in the 16th and 17th centuries]
Sankt Peterburg, Imper. Akad. Nauk, 1865-9.

A theme rarely researched: the relations between Russia and Great Britain, and here more specifically early English travellers to Russia before Peter the Great. First edition of this scarce study.

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Oral tradition on the shores of the White Sea

ONCHUKOV, Nikolai Evgenevich

Severnye skazki. Arkhangelskaia i Olonetskaia gg [Northern Tales. From Arkhangel and Olonetsk provinces]
Suvorin, Skt.Peterburg, 1908.

More than 300 traditional tales are gathered here, in the local dialects: a fine work of ethnographic material on the northern regions of Russia.

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With the large map of the Russian Empire

STRAHLENBERG, Philipp Johann von

An Historico-Geographical Description of the North and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia; but More Particularly of Russia, Siberia, and Great Tartary
London, Innys and Manby, 1738.

Fine, fresh example of this famous work, with its impressive map but also with important illustrations and a wide-ranging content on Siberia and other Russian regions.

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