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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…
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…
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…
August Wilhelm Tappe (died 1830). Neue theoretisch-praktische russische Sprachlehre für Deutsche mit vielen Beispielen. Riga, Leipzig: bei Deubner und Treuy; Meinshausen und Hartknoch, 1819. C11619
Do Mind Your Grammar... The numbers of auslanders in St. Petersburg in the 18th century and later certainly fluctuated a great deal but there's little doubt that the Germans and French, followed closely by the English, were the dominant species. In…
Augustus Bozzi Granville (1783-1872). St. Petersburg. A journal of travels to and from that capital. 2d ed., carefully revised and with considerable additions. London: H. Colburn 1829. 2 vols. C9755, v.1
The Double... The statue of The Bronze Horseman (= Peter the Great, the inspired hero, rash, speedy, proud, majestic, handsome, and yes, six and a half feet tall in real life!) symbolized a powerful upsurge in Russian energy (and the horse and his…
Opisanīe Tibeta v nyni︠e︡shnem ego sostoi︠a︡nīi. S kartoi︠u︡ dorogi iz Chen-du do Khlassy. Perevod s kitaĭskago. Ma, Chieh, 1792. C8720
Ever The Twain Shall Meet. If one goes far enough west one will arrive at Petersburg's eastern back door, and by such machinations of the imagination we were able to include this beautiful aquatint of Tibet from a volume translated from the Chinese…
The Englishwoman in Russia: impressions of the society and manners of the Russians at home. By a Lady, ten years resident in that country. London: J. Murray, 1855 C5767
Mad Dogs and Englishmen... During Catherine's reign, the British had established themselves as a powerful minority in "Peterborough," as it was called by some of the Brits. They ran factories and were fully involved in the intellectual and social…
Armée française et armée russe. Paris: A. Taride, 1886? C5407
Lambs to the Slaughter; or, I Love Your Hat... Both the French and the Germans were intrigued with Russian military uniforms and with good reason. But one would think the tassels and plumes and chinstraps would have slowed a guy down and made him…
Bīografīi︠a︡, pisʹma, i zami︠e︡tki iz zapisnoĭ knizhki F.M. Dostoevskago.
A Gentle Soul... Before the Industrial Revolution St. Petersburg's visibly wealthy lived side by side with her hidden impoverished, often in the front and the back of the same building! This "illusion" of what the city represented, the pretense that…
Arthur Sketchley (1817-1882). Mrs. Brown on the Royal Russian Marriage. London: G. Routledge and sons, 1874. B1746
The News From Lake Ladoga... Arthur Sketchley is the pseudonym of English dramatist, novelist, and entertainer George Rose. His "Mrs. Brown" novels – 32 volumes in all – purport to be the slightly dotty ravings and rantings of an…