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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…
Nicolas-Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798). Histoire physique, morale, civile et politique de la Russie ancienne. Paris: Froulle, 1783-1785. 6 vols. and atlas. H82: atlas
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Put Her in a Pumpkin Shell... The palatial Peterhof or Petrodvorets, Peter's favorite home, was 30 versts or about 20 miles from the old St. Petersburg. Was it indeed still part of larger Petersburg today? We discovered that although it's still…
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…
Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811). Travels through the southern provinces of the Russian empire in the years 1793 and 1794 Translated from the German. 2d ed. London: printed for John Stockdale. 2 vols. Ellis Omnia E10, v.1
Ur-Land of Oz... An aquatint view – from one of our most beautiful printed volumes – of the pre-Kansas homeland of our local Volga German population, who brought to western Kansas the Turkey-red wheat (as well as the noxious and pesky…
Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811). Zoographia rosso-asiatica Petropoli: In officina Caes. Academiae Scientarum Impress., 1831. 3 vols. Ellis Aves D424
By Nature Wise... Peter Simon Pallas was German born and studied in Germany, the Netherlands, and Great Britain before he came to St. Petersburg at age 26, and a year later was leading (with Falk and Delisle) an expedition as a member of the Academy…
Posters of the Russian Revolution, 1917-1929, from the Lenin Library, Moscow. New York: Grove Press, 1967 J14
Defend to the End Petrograd! Or more loosely translated, "Defend Petrograd with your life!" This poster is from the "other side" in the Revolution, not to say the West, but the anti-Bolshevik White Guards. General Nicolai W. Yudenich, leader of the…
Rasseja. [Mit einführenden Aufsätzen von Oskar Bie, Pavel Barchan, Alexander Benois und Boris Grigoriew], 1922. D2463
The Possessed... If you, like the Russian authorities, dislike "the distortion of the images of the Russian peasantry and their social life," in Grigorev's edition of Rasseja, then look to Shchedrovskii's more realistic but much earlier view. This…
Revue russe d’art et de littérature, Jar-ptitza, 1923. E874, no. 1
Come on Baba, Light my Fire... The Zhar Ptitsa, or Firebird, is one of the most important of the ex-patriot magazines of art, literature, and dance published in the Russian diaspora after World War I. The title is a no-brainer: it's one of the best…
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…