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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…
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…
Lenin (V.I. Ulyanov), [Moscow]: OGIZ, State Publishing Hitical Literature, 1939. E1283
A Raw Youth ... This samovar-table book compiled from material in the Central Lenin Museum in Moscow is chock full of wonderful color as well as black and white plates, facsimiles of party documents, and photographs, with uniformly high-quality…
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…
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…
Rose Celli. Conte de petit poisson d’or. Dessins de I. Bilibine. Paris: Flammarion, 1933. Children 6509
It Takes a Village... When there's talk of Russia – and especially of Petersburg – there's talk of contrasts, opposites, contradictions. This theme is a constant in Biely's novel Petersburg. Petersburg is fog, Moscow is sunshine. Moscow…
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…
André Schaeffner (born 1895). Strawinsky. Paris: Les Éditions Rieder, 1938. C9651
The Last of the Warmenoughs... It is said that 1913 had the cold feel of revolution in St. P. The weather told the story as it had before in Russian literature (the setting for the events in Pushkin's poem "The Bronze Horseman" was the calamitous…
Romer Wilson (1891-1930). The social climbers: a Russian middle-class tragedy in four acts seen through London: Ernest Benn, 1927. B6125
Feodor: Verochka, do you remember those evenings we spent in the cornfields? British writer Romer Wilson's novels and novellas and in this case, a play, deal with the issues of art, love, and contemporary issues – contemporary with the first…