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Scenes in Russia describing the manners, customs, diversions, modes of traveling, &c. Of the inhabitants of that country. London: printed for J. And E. Wallis, 1814. Children A933
St. Petersburg High... The only image of St. P. more plentiful in western books about 19th century Russia than the bronze horseman, is the ice hill, or "flying mountain," a peculiarly Russian entertainment that may have something to do with the fact…
Alʹmanakh gastronomov : sostav bli︠u︡d devi︠a︡nosta polnykh obi︠e︡dov : oznachennykh zapiskami (menu) russkimi i frant︠s︡uzskimi ... a ravno zagotovlenii︠a︡ vprok na zimu produktov po frant︠s︡uzskomu sposovu / sostavleno I.M. Radet︠s︡kim ...D790
As good as the real thing... When it comes to western eyes looking through frosty Russian dining-room windows like the little match girl, the eyes are never too big for stomachs wanting dishes we can find nowhere else. Even a potato tastes Russian in…
Kuznet︠s︡kii Most. I︠u︡moristicheskii illiustrirovanny al’bom. D2143
How many Russians does it take to change a northern light? Whatever country we hail from, we all know from trying to fathom "foreign" movies that humor is often difficult to translate across cultural boundaries. Russian humor often fares better with…
An English Lady: An anonymous manuscript travel-diary, a detailed account of the sights, costumes, social services, village and town life, war aftermath, travel mishaps in Russia and Poland. MS B144
Notes From Underground... If you're interested in matters Polish and Russian or in travels in Slavic lands and in sights seen through western eyes AND if you can read this page from the manuscript diary of an Englishwoman traveling in the summer of…
Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842). Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden, during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808. London: printed for R. Phillips, 1809. 2 vols. D1213, v.1
Postal in Petersburg; or, Hail-Mail. There's enough sleet, snow, and dark-of-night in St. P. in the winter to earn any postal worker an honest wage. Add to that a trek of eleven time zones. Trans-Siberian rail-mail speeds things up considerably. The…
Les plans et les statuts, des différents établissements ordonées par Sa Majesté impériale Catherine II. pour l’éducation de la jeunesse, et l’utilité générale de son empire / ecrits en langue russe par Mr. Betzky & tr. en langue françoise par Mr. Clerc. D1467, vol. 1.
Peter Principle, Catherine Principle... Education in Russia, woefully inadequate until Peter's reforms, had theretofore been under the authority of the church. The secularization of thought that came to Russia from the West with the Enlightenment was…
Mémoire sur la cour de Russie et l’Etat russe. Moscow? ca. 1746. Manuscript report by an unidentified French diplomat on the persons at the Russian court and on conditions in Russia. MS C9
Diary of a Diplomat... This manuscript is a report by a high ranking but unidentified French diplomat of the men and women peopling the Russian court, and on military, economic, religious, political, and social conditions in Russia, 1745-1746. For…
Entretiens sur la pluralite des mondes, or, On the plurality of worlds. Bernard de Bovier de Fontenelle, 1853.
The Midnight Sun revolves around St. Petersburg... Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes, or, On the plurality of worlds, is not a seething exposé of 18th century mystical Blakeian religious fervor as we thought it must be…
Istoria usovershenstvovanii︠a︡ ul’i︠a︡. / Sostavlena chlenom Imperatorskago Volʹnago Ėkonomicheskago Obshchestva A. Pokorskim-Zhoravko. Историа усовершенствования ул’я. / Составлена членом Императорскаго Вольнаго Экономическаго Общества А. Покорским-Жоравко.
Dr. Atkins' Nemesis... Forget the killer bees; what about killer honey and beebread? Diabetics both western and eastern have A.I. Prokopovich to blame for making honey more harvestable by his invention in 1814 of beehives with removable frames. In…
Arifmetika; siriech nauka chislitelnaia. S raznykj dialektov na slavenskii iazyk prevedenaia, i voedino sobrana, i na dvie knigi razdielena. E502
Not Just Another Pretty Math Book... Peter I had a strong interest in developing a school of military engineering and in 1723 merged Moscow's school with the one founded in St. Petersburg in 1719. Equally important to the tsar was a school of…