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Image for STANISLAVSKII, K. Photograph inscribed. Moscow, 1911. #2

Chekhov's innovative director

STANISLAVSKII, Konstantin Sergeevich

Cabinet photograph signed to Andrei Pavlovich Petrovskii

Scherer, Nabholz & Co, Moskva, [c. 1911]. £3,750

Excellent photograph of the famous director, beautifully inscribed to a fellow man of theatre.

Image for BOURKE-WHITE, Meet Some of the Soviet People. First edition, c.1941 #2

By the first American woman war photojournalist

BOURKE-WHITE, Margaret

Meet Some of the Soviet People

Russian War Relief, Inc., New York, [1941?]. £800

The variety of peoples of the USSR in fine photographic portraits by a great photographer, possibly the most significant woman photographer of her time.

Image for LOUKOMSKI, G. Le Kreml de Moscou. Paris, c. 1927-28. Complete first edition #1

One of the greatest museums of Russia

LOUKOMSKI [LUKOMSKII] Georgii Krestsenovich

Le Kreml (Kremlin) de Moscou. Ses cathédrales, ses palais et ses trésors d'art

Société moderne d'impressions for Nilsson, Paris, [ca. 1927-28]. £250

A complete example of this impressive photographic survey of the Kremlin and its fantastic museums.

Image for SHCHERBATOVA, O. Po Indii i Tseilonu [Across India and Ceylon]. First edition, Moscow, 1892. #2

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A Russian woman discovers Southern India

SHCHERBATOVA, Olga Aleksandrovna

Po Indii i Tseilonu. Moi putevyia zametki 1890-91 [Across India and Ceylon. My Travel Notes 1890-91]

Kushnerev i Ko, Moskva, 1892.

Wide-ranging travel account, illustrated with a wealth of photographs, some taken by the author, a remarkable Russian princess fond of travels. A fine example of this scarce first edition.

Image for ORZHIKH, B. Albom Bortsov za Svobodu. Nagasaki, 1907. First edition, with wrappers. #2

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With the striking wrappers

ORZHIKH, Boris

Albom Bortsov za Svobodu [Album of Freedom Fighters, Pt.1 [all published]]

Tip. 'Voli', Nagasaki, 1907.

Impressive publication of a politically active Russian émigré to Japan. Richly illustrated, here with the original publisher's printed wrappers.

Image for Karafuto Shashin-cho [A Photographic Album of South Sakhalin], 1936. #2

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The achievements of Japanese colonisation in Sakhalin

Karafuto Shashin-cho [A Photographic Album of South Sakhalin]

Karafuto-cho [Sakhalin Public Office], Tokyo [but Karafuto Toyohara?], Showa 11 [ie. 1936].

Great visual record of South Sakhalin in the 1920s-30s: wide-ranging, artistic - and scarce. A beautifully fresh example.

Image for LEITSINGER, Photographs of Arkhangelsk and Northern Russian people, late 19th century #1

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Samoyeds, barrels and snow

LEITSINGER, Jakob Ivanovich

Photographic Views of Arkhangelsk and its Region

Arkhangelsk, 1890-1900s.

A lovely group of rare Russian photographs, showing Northern indigenous peoples and local trades by one of the main photographers of the Russian North, and future mayor of Arkhangelsk.

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