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0-55 Gippius, Z. Chernoe po belomu. St.P. 1908; rep. ORP 1977/, pp. 269. With a new intro by Tamira Pachmuss, University of Illinois. $26
0-30 Rudnev, S. P. Pri vechernykh ogniakh. Vospominaniia. /Kharbin 1928; rep. ORP 1978/, pp. 467. With new intro by Professor Peter Scheibert, Universitat Marburg. Memoirs of descendant of old landed gentry; education in Simbirsk (under Kerensky's father); legal studies + life in district courts before 1917; Revoluton + work with Simbirsk Church Sobor + Tikhon's election in 1917; Civil War and life in Siberia and effort to establish an independent anti-Bolshevik Kamchatka with a Grand-Duke as leader; Life in Russianized Kharbin in 1920s. [ORP Memoir Series, 30] $46
0-72 Vodovozov, V. V. Materialy dlia kharakteristiki polozheniia russkoi pechati. Vyp. 1 (no more pub.) /Geneva 1898; rep. <ORP> 1973/, pp. 220. Introduction and discussion of press censorship + revolutionary thought in late 19th C Russia by D. M. O'Flaherty, St. Antony's College, Oxford. [NOTE: sewn, unbound copies only] $26
0-69 Slepenkov, I. M. Rural Youth Today /Mos. <ORP> 1972/, pp. 101. Translation of 1972 Russian edition by James Riordan, Bradford University. Discussion of rural attitudes to farm work, private plots, village life, leisure time, etc. Bibliography. $22
0-68 Glinka, G. L. (ed.) Aziatskaia Rossiia. 3 vols in 2 /St.P. 1914; rep. ORP 1973/, pp. 1500. Qt. Illust. Introduction and discussion of Russian migration in 1913 by Prof. Terrence Armstrong, Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge, England. Panorama foldouts, hundreds of photos of old Siberia. [NOTE: stock currently unavailable; orders taken] "This book has no peer, before or after its time." [Introduction] $220
0-67 Belov, G. A. Gosudarstvennye arkhivi Souiuza SSR. Kratkii spravochnik. /Mos. 1956: rep. <ORP> 1977/, pp. 510. "Indispensable"-P. Grimsted, HURI, Harvard University. [NOTE: copies sewn, unbound] $36
0-66 Rubakin, Nikolai A. Sredi knig. Opyt obzora russkikh knizhnykh bogatstv v sviazi s istoriei nauchno-filosofskikh I literaturno-obshchestvennykh idei. 3 vols. /Mos. 1911-15; rep. <ORP> 1976/, pp. 630, 1000, 200 + 100 pp. of contemporary advertising. With long introduction by Prof. A. E. Senn (University of Wisconsin) on the Rubakin archval material in St. Petersburg and value of Sredi knig. [ NOTE: Volumes sewn, unbound] "the most valuable bibliography for the period 1825-1919"-K. Maichel. $140
0-65 Veselovsky, Boris Istoriia Zemstva za sorok let. 4 vols. /St.P. 1909-1911; rep. <ORP> 1978/, pp. 703, 724, 722, 837. With a 21 page introduction by Profs C. Timberlake and James Malloy. Also, in volume 4, ORP has reprinted an additional rare bibliography compiled by Veselovsky in 1918. "Unsurpassed and even unchallenged as the major history of the Zemstvos" -Horecky. [NOTE: Our last remaining vols are sewn but partially bound: Reg. Price: $380] $230
0-64 Zheliabuzhsky, I. Zapiski russkikh liudei sobytiia vremen' Petre Velikogo St.P. 1841; rep. <ORP> 1980/, pp. 525. Memoirs of I. Zheliabuzhsky, Count Andrei Matv'ev, Petr Kreskin, and Sil'vester Medvedev. All these memoirs cast considerable light on Peter's relationship with Empress Sofiia and the leading noble families in the period 1682-1709; eyewitness account of stretsy revolt and its supression; early Westerization and contacts; Medvedev's famous library, etc. Introduction by Prof/Dr. Hans Torke, FU-Berlin. . [ORP Memoir Series, 27] $52
0-62 Koshelov, Aleksander I. Zapiski, 1806-1883. /Berlin, 1884; rep. <ORP> 1976/. 2 vols in 1: Pp. 272, 232. Introduction by Prof. Nicholas Riasanovsky, UC-Berkeley. Koshelev's life spanned the main intellectual currents of Russian life over the critical reform period from 1860-1880; member of intellectual society "Lovers of Wisdom" and its romantic poetic spiritualism in 1820s; German idealism + influence on his Slavophile thought; work with Russian public affairs and zemstvos in 1860s. [ORP Memoir Series, 23] $46
0-69 Lincoln, W. Bruce Petr P. Semenov-Tian-Shanskii. The Life of a Russian Geographer. /Newtonville <ORP> 1980/, pp. 120, ill. Based on archival material. Life of Russia's greatest geographer/explorer of 19th C. [Russian Biography Series, 8] $28
0-60 Labzina, A. E. Vospominaniia, 1763-1819. /St.P. 1914; rep. <ORP> 1978/, pp. 163. Memoirs and diary of the wife of Th. Labzin, Freemason and mystic in the reign of Aleksandr I. Introduction by Dr. Judith Cohen Zacek. [ORP Memoir Series, 7] $26
0-73 Biske, I. R. Russian Handwriting/Russkii Pocherki. London, 1919; rep. <ORP> 1987/, pp. 90. Introduction by Edward Kasinec, New York Public Library. 55 samples of handwriting and keys prepared by a leading scholar and used for many years by the British Foreign Office. $23
0-58 Pekarsky, P. P. Nauka i literatura v Rossii pri Petre Velikom (Science and Literature in the time of Peter the Great). 2 vols. /St.P. 1863; rep. <ORP> 1974/, pp. 980. "Essential"--Horecky. [Sewn, unbound, mint condition. Reg. Price: $110] $62
0-57 Evans, John Mission to Peking. Ignatiev in Peking. Diary of Count Nikolai Ignatiev and his diplomatic role in Peking during the Amur crisis. /Newtonville <ORP> 1987/, pp. 185, maps, ill. Russian-Chinese relations in mid 19th C. [Russia in Asia Series, 2] $28
0-56 Senese, Donald S. M. Stepniak-Kravchinskii: The London Years. /Newtonville <ORP> 1987/, pp. 130, ill. Russian Revolutionary activities in late 19th C. England "an excellent and serious study." (New Zealand Slavic Journal, 1990, p. 230) [Russian Biography Series, 34] $31
0-44 Giliarov-Platonov, N. Iz perezhitago. Avtobiograficheskaia vospominaniia. Ch. 1-2. /Mos. 1886; rep. <ORP> 1977/, pp. 343, 344. Intro by Prof. Gregory Freeze, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Important memoirs shedding light on that "other world" of the Church, education and the clergy amid political turmoil in Imperial Russian towns (Penza) and Moscow 1850-80s. [ORP Memoir Series, #15] $68
0-54 Phipps, Geraldine Sir John Merrick, A Merchant and Diplomat in 16th Century Russia. /Newtonille, <ORP> 1987/, pp. 140. The Russia Company in Moscow. Based on British archival material. [Russian Biography Series, 13] $26
0-53 Ocheretiansky, Aleksander (ed./comp.) Literature and Art of Avant-Garde Russia (1890-1930). Introduction by Prof. G. Janacek /Newtonville <ORP> 1989/, pp. 200. Titles in Russian/English. Literature and art groups. Serafian brothers, Blok, Kandinsky, etc. [Russian Bibliography Series, 7] $34
0-52 Arans, David How We lost the Civil War. A Bibliography of Émigré Memoirs of the Revolution and War, 1917-1923. Newtonville <ORP> 1988/, pp. 203. velo-binding. Hundreds of titles in English, Russian, German and French. Annotated by David Arnas. Index, illust. [Russian Bibliography Series, 6] $28
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