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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Rare Russian Books
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Memoirs, Diaries, Letters, Autobiographies
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Code: 010548C Kiustin, Astol`f (Custine, Astolphe-Louis-Leonor) Zapiski o Rossii
[ Notes on Russia : ] New York: Serebrianyi Vek, 1982 Language: Russian
Price: $ 19.00
This is a retelling of "La Russie en 1839", the travel dairy of the marquis de Custine by historian V.V. Nechaev (1860-?) along with his comments first published in 1910. de Custine became widely known largely because of this book.
The third issue of the guide to the collections of the Moscow Central Archives contains descriptions of document collections housed in the over 1750 organizations and enterprises of the city of Moscow and the Moscow Gubernia starting with the mid-18th century to the late 1990s.
The second issue of the guide to the collections of the Moscow Central Archives contains descriptions of document collections housed in the over 1750 organizations and enterprises of the city of Moscow and the Moscow Gubernia starting with the mid-18th century to the late 1990s.
This volume is dedicated to Pushkin’s 200th jubilee and contains memoirs of the poet; diaries of his friend, retired staff lieutenant A. Vul’f and of the Empress’s lady-in-waiting M. Merder; and family chronicles of Pushkin’s nephew, L.
[ Pinkevich, Zoshchenko and others : ] St. Petersburg: Sudarynia, 2000 Language: Russian
Price: $ 9.00
This book consists of memoirs about several famous people from St. Petersburg: A. Pinkevich, Sergei Avvakumov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Avgust Rozenberg, etc. The life of each of these people is closely connected to the history of Peterburg/Leningrad and with the history of Russia.
[ Siberian memoir literature of the 19th century : ] Novosibirsk: SO RAN, 2010 Language: Russian
Price: $ 54.00
This is a generalized description of Siberian memoirs written in the 19th century (more than 1,000 works). The monograph offers a frame of references and concepts of such description, classification of memoir literature, as well as a classification of sources.
[ Self portrait on a background of the USSR : ] St. Petersburg: Nestor-Istoriia, 2010 Language: Russian
Price: $ 35.00
Natal`ia Lanina born after WWII spent most of her life in Russia. Her book of memoirs tells about her childhood in the city of Riga, youth in Belorussia, and most of her adult life in St. Petersburg in between conformists and dissidents, artists and philosophers, NKVD and their victims.
Olga Chubarova-Sheremeteva (1885-?) is a direct heir of one of the best known Russian noble families, the Sheremetevs. She was a mature person during the revolutions of 1917, and recorded many changes that happened in the life of her family and other Moscow dwellers during this period.
Adelaida (1874-1925) and Evgeniia (1878-1944) Gertsyk are two remarkable figures in the Russian literary life of the first quarter of the twentieth century, so called the Silver Age. The two sisters were in friendship and dialog with many outstanding writers and philosophers of that time.
[ St. Petersburg sketches : ] St. Petersburg: Rostok, 2004 Language: Russian
Price: $ 19.50
This is the first translation into Russian of the book by Prince A. Porius-Vizapurskii, adventurer, philanderer, gourmand, and free-liver. Born in India, baptized in France, Prince de Vizapour connected the rest of his life with Russia and left us his book about the late 18th-early 19th century, reigns of Pavel I and Aleksandr I.
[ My correspondence with Stolypin; My memoirs about the Tsar : ] Moscow: Greko-Latinskii Kabinet, 1994 Language: Russian
Price: $ 15.00
A. Shvarts (1848-1915) was a professor, and then a member of the State Council and the education minister in Stolypin`s cabinet of ministers (1909-1915). In addition to his memoirs, the book contains an extensive essay about A, Shvarts and his activities by S.
Vera Sergeevna Aksakova, the daughter of the writer Sergei Aksakov and sister of two well known Slavophiles Konstantin and Ivan Aksakov, was actively involved in their literary and philosophical discussions.
[ Journey to the edge of night : ] Moscow: Sovremennik, 1996 Language: Russian
Price: $ 25.00
The memoirs of the Soviet spy D.A. Bystroletov (Tolstoi) (1901-1975). D. Bystroletov was a uniquely well-educated person: sailor and travelor, professor of law and medicine, artist and man of letters.
This is the memoirs of a veteran of WWII. Unlike many other memoirs this book is mostly about the life of young people at war, then about military actions.
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