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William Woodville (1752-1805). Medical botany. 2d ed. London: printed and sold by William Phillips, 1810. Linnæana D92, v.4

Hey Baba Reba, Rhubarb Pie! Scottish doctors, surgeons, and naturalists played a pre-eminent part in Anglo/Russian natural history in the 18th and early 19th centuries, for example, John Fraser (1750-1811) as royal botanical collector to the Tsar;…

William Alexander 1767-1816). The costume of the Russian empire illustrated by a series of seventy-three engravings; with descriptions in English and French. London: printed for William Miller by Howlett and Brimmer, 1803. E18

Blue Boy... Although this volume of plates is attributed in the British Museum Catalogue to William Alexander, nowadays it is usually cataloged under the name of the artist, E. Harding. It has a complicated bibliography: the plates were apparently…

Voyage dans la Russie meridionale et la Crimee par la Hongrie, la Valachie et la Moldavie. Execute en 1837. Edition illustree de 64 dessins par Raffet. Paris, 1840. Ellis Aves H18

To Russia With Love... The Demidov family of mine owners rose to prominence under Peter I when they were granted extensive landholdings for construction of metallurgical factories in the Urals. Master craftsmen were brought in, factories were built,…

The Russian catechism, compos’d and publish’d by order of the Czar. 2d ed. London: W. Meadows, 1725. B5085

Kyrie Eleison...Lord Have Mercy... The following list of complaints and the engraving on the right provide the reader with the English view of Russian Orthodoxy: Of the Muscovites and the Russians The Muscovites, and Russians as they were converted…

The Life and Glorious Deeds of Peter the Great, Zahariah Orfelin, 1772. B10376

From the Land of the South Slavs... Published in Vienna, this calendar of the world's happenings from its beginnings uses the Russian civil alphabet, introduced to the Russians by Peter The Great. The author, Serbian school teacher, writer,…

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…

Stanislaw Siestrze´ncewicz-Bohusz (1731-1826). Recherches historiques sur l’origine des Sarmates, des Esclavons, et des Slaves St. Pétersbourg: de L’Imp. de Pluchart, 1812. B5119

The Grand Inquisitor... Peter the Great had no love for Catholicism, but in the early days of his reign he showed deference to the church. Unfortunately his reforms did little to improve conditions for Catholics, and under Catherine II their…

Sigmund, Freiherr von Herberstein (1486-1566). Rerum Moscoviticarum commentarij: Russiae breuissima descriptio. Antwerpiae: in aedibuas Ioannis Steelsij, 1557. Summerfield B705

Positively antediluvian; or, Floods looking for a city ... Long before the founding of St. Petersburg, Europeans looked towards Russia like rabbits casing the carrot patch, especially those travelers such as Sigmund von Herberstein in the 16th and…

Shoeless Yosuf...

Shoeless Yosuf... One of this westerner's childhood memories is children's books from Europe. They were in French, German, Russian, and thus "unreadable" but beloved just the same, and linguistic barriers contributed to their mystique. This…

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…

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