Moscow and St. Petersburg

Code: 006012
A Tour of Moscow and the Golden Ring

[ A Tour of Moscow and the Golden Ring : ]
: Cultural Traditions, 1998
Language: English

Price: $ 24.00

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Code: 014686
Luchshee v Moskve 2001

[ Luchshee v Moskve 2001 : ]
Moscow: InfoServices Intl, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 22.50

This guide contains information about the best Russian stores, restaurants, hotels, medical centers, services, car stations, tourist agencies, museums, theaters, and more.

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Code: 023375
Paradnye Zaly Moskovskogo Kremlia

[ Paradnye Zaly Moskovskogo Kremlia : ]
Moscow: Velti, 2001
Language: Russian and English

Price: $ 19.00

This book-album tells the story of ceremonial Halls of the Moscow Kremlin, and shows how they look after the latest renovation. Parallel text in Russian and English. Glossy paper.

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Code: 016943
Saint-Petersburg
City map and panorama for tourists
[ Saint-Petersburg : City map and panorama for tourists ]
: Karta, 1997
Language: English

Price: $ 13.50

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Code: 006357
Dzhakomo Kvarengi : Arkhitekturnaia Grafika
Katalog Vystavki na Russkom i Ital`ianskom Iazykakh
[ Dzhakomo Kvarengi : Arkhitekturnaia Grafika : Katalog Vystavki na Russkom i Ital`ianskom Iazykakh ]
St. Petersburg: Slaviia, Gos. Ermitazh, 1999
Language: Russian and Italian

Price: $ 59.00

Many of the famous buildings of St. Petersburg , both public and private, were designed by the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi (1744-1817). He also worked in other cities of Russia. This is a catalog of his drawings, plans and drafts, as well as photographs of his buildings.

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Code: 017055
Russkie Khudozhniki o Sankt-Peterburge

[ Russkie Khudozhniki o Sankt-Peterburge : ]
Samara: Agni, 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.00

Set of 13 cards (15 x 21 cm) with paintings of one of the most wonderful cities of the world, St. Petersburg. These works are from several local Russian art museums and therefore are less well known. They were made in the 19th century by famous Russian artists: I.

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Code: 002907
Moskva Rubezha XIX i XX Stoletii
Vzgliad v Proshloe Izdaleka
[ Moskva Rubezha XIX i XX Stoletii : Vzgliad v Proshloe Izdaleka ]
Moscow: POSSPEN, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 31.50

This monograph is a collective effort of Russian and American historians. Contents: Moscow at the turn of the century; Peculiar indifferences and metropolitan tolerance in turn-of-the last century Moscow and New York; Land values in turn-of-the century Moscow; Cultural geography of Moscow in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; The Topography of the style moderne in Moscow: Esthetics in an urban context; Chekhov`s vision of Moscow: City of hope; Looking through the "water of the times": Moscow as interpreted by the Russian avant-garde; Moscow under the new regime: Dynamics of function of place; Moscow then and now.

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Code: 007316-01
Fenomen Peterburga: Trudy Mezhdunarodnoi Konferentsii
Trudy Vtoroi Mezhdunarodnoi Konferentsii, Sostoiavsheisia 27-30 Noiabria 2000…
[ Fenomen Peterburga: Trudy Mezhdunarodnoi Konferentsii : Trudy Vtoroi Mezhdunarodnoi Konferentsii, Sostoiavsheisia 27-30 Noiabria 2000… ]
St. Petersburg: BLITs, 2001
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

St. Petersburg has attracted a great deal of attention from artists, poets and writers, philosophers and social scientists during its almost 300 hundred year history. This is a collection of the proceedings of the second International Conference which took place in November 2000.

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Code: 015769
Moscow
The Kremlin. Red Square. All Moscow. Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery
[ Moscow : The Kremlin. Red Square. All Moscow. Trinity-St. Sergius Monastery ]
: P-2; Amarant, 2001, 2005
Language: English

Price: $ 39.00

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Code: 023991
Tsarskii Khram
Sviatyni Blagoveshchenskogo Sobora v Kremle
[ Tsarskii Khram : Sviatyni Blagoveshchenskogo Sobora v Kremle ]
Moscow: Gosudarstvennyi Istoriko-Kul`turnyi Myzei-Zapovednik "Moskovskii Kremlia", 2003
Language: Russian

Price: $ 59.00

This book is a description of the holy relics of the Annunciation Cathedral (Blagoveshchenskii Sobor) in the Kremlin. Three introductory articles are by I. Kachalova, L. Shchennikova and I. Sterligova.

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Code: 013740-1
Holy Russia
Part One: The Temples of Saint Petersburg. 4 CDs
[ Holy Russia : Part One: The Temples of Saint Petersburg. 4 CDs ]
Moscow: Lanck Software Ltd, 1998
Language: Russian and English

Price: $ 45.00

This CD-ROM provides two modes of operation: 1) Information for common users interested in the history of Russia; 2) Training for high school and college students. The disk contains over 300 combinations of questions and answers.

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Code: 013127
Chibisov, V., Dozhina, V., et al
Tour of Moscow, A : City, History, People
A Guide
[ Tour of Moscow, A : City, History, People : A Guide ]
Moscow: Cultural Traditions, 1997
Language: English

Price: $ 39.00

This guide contains chapters on the history and the current state of the Russian capital Moscow, its populations, streets, squares, museums, architectural ensembles, sights and entertainments, as well as other useful information.

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Code: 010143
Pavlov, A.P
Khramy Sankt-Piterburga
Khudozhestvenno-Istoricheskii Ocherk
[ Khramy Sankt-Piterburga : Khudozhestvenno-Istoricheskii Ocherk ]
St. Petersburg: Lenizdat, 1995
Language: English and Russian

Price: $ 17.00

Parallel text. Supplements include the chronicle of temple building (1703-1916), active churches, and destroyed Russian Orthodox Churches. Richly illustrated.

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Code: 023843
Kushlina, O., Bogatova, J
Saint Petersburg
Guide - Book for Children
[ Saint Petersburg : Guide - book for children ]
St. Petersburg: Geran`, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 14.00

Dear Friend, our book will help you to take a tour of St. Petersburg. Many poets have sung of the beauties of the city, and many artists have painted it, and everybody knows Alexander Pushkin`s verses about the city by heart.

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Code: 030858
Vas`kin, A.A
Moskva, Spalennaia Pozharom": Pervoprestol`naia v 1812 Godu

[ "Moscow scorched by fire": The capital in 1812 : ]
Moscow: Sputnik+, 2012
Language: Russian

Price: $ 34.00

This book is about the life of Moscow during the 1812 Russian-Napoleonic war. It tells how the city prepared for the war, and how it was unexpectedly given up to Napoleon. The author describes the forced great fire in Moscow, life in occupation, looting and violence of the French army, ravaging Orthodox churches and estates.

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Code: 027818
Zaionts, M.G
Segodnia" i Vsegda
Zhivaia Istoriia Teatra 1992-2009
[ "Today" and always : Living history of theater 1992-2009 ]
Moscow: Artist. Rezhisser. Teatr, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 32.00

This book is a collection of theater reviews by one of the best Russian critics Marina Zaionts (1944-2010). Taken together they present the history of Russian theater over the last two decades. The volume covers modern theater life in Moscow and St.

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Code: 012660
Molokova, T.A., Frolov, V.P
850 Moskovskikh Znamenitostei
Slovar`-Spravochnik
[ 850 notable Moscovites : Slovar`-Spravochnik ]
Moscow: Moskovskii Litsei, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: $ 25.00

This dictionary-handbook includes information about 850 well known Muscovites, whose names became part of Moscow place names: street, squares, buildings, monuments and memorials. Bibliographic references.

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Code: 021078
Lebedeva, E.V
Gorod Khramov i Palat

[ A City of temples and palaces : ]
Moscow: Izd-vo Sretenskogo Monastyria, 2006
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.00

The history of 90 Moscow churches, monasteries and cathedrals is connected with the history of the patron saint`s day of these churches. The book consists of two parts: intransitive (fixed) and transitive (moveable) Church holidays (and the churches which celebrate them).

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Code: 018271
Mikishat`ev, Mikhail
Progulki po Liteinoi Chasti

[ A Stroll through the Liteinyi district of St. Petersburg : ]
St. Petersburg: Ostrov, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.50

This book is an architectural guide to one of the old districts of St. Petersburg, called Liteinyi. The district received its name after the smelting-house where Peter the First ordered the manufacture of Russian cannons and guns.

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Code: 007083
Puteshestvie po Moskve i Zolotomu Kol`tsu: Istoriia, Arkhitektura, Pbychai, Nravy, Liudi
Kniga-Putevoditel`
[ A Tour of Moscow and the Golden Ring: History, architecture, traditions, customs, people : Guide ]
Moscow: Kul`turnye Traditsii, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 24.00

The "Golden Ring" is the name of a tourist route popular with both Russian and foreign lovers of old Russian architecture. This route winds in and out of cities and villages of the North-Eastern part of what used to be the State of Muscovy.

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Code: 025688
Gornyi, Sergei
Al`bom Pamiati

[ Album of my memory : ]
St. Petersburg: Giperion, 2011
Language: Russian

Price: $ 43.00

This volume consists of two books by poet, parodist and humorist Sergei Gornyi (1882-1948): "Sankt-Peterburg (Videniia)" and "Tol`ko o veshchakh". Both books are unique documentary sources on the details of the everyday life of old St.

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Code: 010222
Remizov, Aleksei
Moskva Alekseia Remizova
Sbornik
[ Aleksei Remizov`s Moscow : Collected work ]
Moscow: Kstati, 1996
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This book includes the autobiographical prose, stories, dreams, diaries, and Moscow legends written by the famous Russian writer Aleksei Remizov (1877-1957). The book is provided with commentaries.

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Code: 007246
Vse Restorany Moskvy. 2000

[ All the restaurants of Moscow. 2000 : ]
Moscow: AVERS, 2000
Language: Russian

Price: $ 18.00

This is a tourist guide to Moscow restaurants and other places of entertainment: clubs, caf?s, bars, and pubs. For many places it includes their menu with prices. Street map. Richly illustrated.

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Code: 001325
Androsov, S.O
Antichnye Mify v Kamne i Bronze
Peterburgskaia Gorodskaia Skul`ptura: Spravochnik-Putevoditel`
[ Ancient myths in stone and bronze : St. Petersburg sculpture: Handbook-guide ]
St. Petersburg: Lik, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 19.00

This guide describes about 200 monumental and decorative sculptures located in squares, parks, streets and buildings of the city of St. Petersburg that personify characters of ancient mythology.

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Code: 013362
Arbatskii Arkhiv
Istoriko-Kraevedcheskii Almanakh. Vypusk 1
[ Arbat archive : Historic almanac. Issue one ]
Moscow: Tverskaia 13, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: ~~$ 29.00~~
Special price: $ 26.10

Arbat, a 500 year old street of Moscow, is also one of the cultural centers of the capital. This book is about the past and present of the street, its architecture, and famous people who lived there, including A.

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Code: 013362-1
Arbatskii Arkhiv
Istoriko-Kraevedcheskii Almanakh. Vypusk 1
[ Arbat archive : Historic almanac. Issue one ]
Moscow: Tverskaia 13, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: ~~$ 29.00~~
Special price: $ 26.10

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Code: 013362-2
Arbatskii Arkhiv
Istoriko-Kraevedcheskii Almanakh. Vypusk 2
[ Arbat archive : Historic almanac. Issue two ]
: Nauka, 2009
Language: Russian

Price: $ 47.00

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Code: 005030-1
Arkheologicheskoe Izuchenie Sankt-Peterburga v 1996-2004
Tom 1
[ Archeological study of St. Petersburg in 1996-2004 : Volume 1 ]
St. Petersburg: Izd-vo S.-Peterburgskogo Un-ta, 2005
Language: Russian

Price: $ 28.00

The first volume of proceedings of the St. Petersburg Archeological Expedition includes the results of their excavations in 1996-2004. These results helped to restore the borders of many old estates, to discover treasures and artistic artifacts.

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Code: 010956-1
Сонина, В.А
Zodchie Moskvy Vremeni Barokko i Klassitsizma
1700-1820-e Gody
[ Architects of Moscow of the Baroque and Classical periods: 1700-1820 : 1700-1820-e Gody ]
Moscow: Progress-Traditsiia, 2004
Language: Russian

Price: $ 49.00

This is an illustrated biographical dictionary of Moscow architects based on materials of the State A.V. Shchusev Museum of Architecture (Moscow). The current volume covers 1700-1820s. The previous volume, published in 1998, covered the following period 1830-1917.

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Code: 014019
Svarenskaia, T.F. et al
Arkhitekturnye Ansambli Moskvy XV-Nachala XX vekov
Printsipy Khudozhestvennogo Edinstva
[ Architectural ensambles of Moscow 15th-beginning 20th centuries : Principles of artistic unity ]
Moscow: Stroiizdat, 1997
Language: Russian

Price: $ 79.00

This book analyzes the artistic principles, methods and techniques of forming ensembles in the city of Moscow during different historical periods. In addition to illustrations are included drawings and architectural plans.

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