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Eléazar de Mauvillon ( 1712-1779). Histoire de Pierre I. surnommé le grand, empereur de toutes les Russies. A Amsterdam et a Leipzig: chez Arkstée et Merkus, 1742. 3 vols. C6408, v.1
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All of 6-foot-6 in Stocking Feet... The following quotation is from the column, "Who am I? Test your biography I.Q.," in the pop-magazine Biography for Jan. 2002: One of the most controversial figures in Russian history, I brought many reforms to my…
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…
Friedrich von Adelung (1768-1843). Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein: mit besonderer Ruecksicht auf seine Reisen in Russland. St. Petersburg: N. Gretsch, 1818. C135
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Patron Saint of "Russian" Librarians... Friedrich von Adelung was a Prussian historian, linguist, and bibliographer, a.k.a. Fedor Pavlovich Adelung when he pulled up roots and moved to Russia at age 26. He was dubbed patron saint of Russian…
Friends of Soviet Russia (Irish Section). The U.S.S.R. through Irish eyes. Dublin: Issued by the Friends of Soviet Russia (Irish Section), 1930. O’Hegarty C4267
When Irish Eyes Aren't Smiling. This little pamphlet contains the impressions of an Irish delegation of their six-week tour at invitation of the All-Russian Trade Union Council to investigate conditions in the Soviet Union. A number of days were…
Giles Fletcher (1549?-1611). The history of Russia, or, The goverment [sic] of the Emperour of Muscovia: with manners & fashions of the people of that countrey London 1643. A511
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This is the history of Russia before the founding of St. Petersburg ... Published originally as Of the Russe Common Wealth, 1591, this is the second edition of the first English book about Russia. Well more than a century before Sankt Pieter Burkh…
Gordon Anthony. Russian ballet; camera studies. London: G. Bles, 1939. E336
Love and Death. Everywhere in the world, Russian ballet = Russian soul. On the eve of World War I Petrograd's avant-garde artistic community revolted against the stuffy, rigid conservatism of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in what one person…
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Poor People... Ignatii Stepanovich Shchedrovskii, graphic artist, lithographer and painter, was born in Lithuania, studied in Vilna, and attended the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts at age 18 to 21. His Scenes from Popular Life of 1839 was republished…
