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HISTORY/ RUSSIA
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-- "Before 1919"
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A Prodigal Saint: Father John of Kronstadt and the Russian People, by Nadieszda Kizenko
"A powerful and multi-dimensional portrait of the controversial Father John of Kronstadt, presented against the backdrop of Late Imperial religious life. Reading this book is like stepping back into the world of a century ago, seeing the concerns, both material and spiritual, which occupied people's lives." Eve Levin, Ohio State University. 384pp Paper
Price: $33.00
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Between God and Tsar: Religious Symbolism and the Royal Women of Muscovite Russia, by Isolde Thyret
This pioneering study demonstrates that the wives of the early tsars played complex roles in government, especially during times of crisis, and shows how religious culture perpetuated the expressions of their legitimacy as female rulers. 289pp Cloth
Price: $40.00
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Breaking the Ties That Bound: The Politics of Marital Strife in Late Imperial Russia, by Barbara Alpern Engel
In Breaking the Ties That Bound, Engel draws on exceptionally rich archival documentation - in particular, on petitions for marital separation and the materials generated by the ensuing investigations - to explore changing notions of marital relations, domesticity, childrearing, and intimate life among ordinary men and women in imperial Russia. 280pp Hardcover
Price: $50.00
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Cambridge History of Russia (The) Volume 1: From Early Rus' to 1689, by Maureen Perrie
This first volume of the Cambridge History of Russia covers the period from early ('Kievan') Rus' to the start of Peter the Great's reign in 1689. 800pp Hardcover
Price: $292.00
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Cambridge History of Russia (The) Volume 2: Imperial Russia, 1689-1917, Edited by Dominic Lieven
The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689-1917). 794pp
Price: $292.00
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Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, 1758-1821, by Anna Labzina; Edited and Translated by Gary Marker and Rachel
Consisting of a rare memoir and also a diary, Days of a Russian Noblewoman provides a unique glimpse into the domestic life of Russia's nobility in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries now translated into English for the first time. 208pp Cloth
Price: $40.00
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Days of a Russian Noblewoman: The Memories of Anna Labzina, 1758-1821, by Anna Labzina; Edited and Translated by Gary Marker and Rachel
Consisting of a rare memoir and also a diary, Days of a Russian Noblewoman provides a unique glimpse into the domestic life of Russia's nobility in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries now translated into English for the first time. 208pp Paper
Price: $18.00
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Ella: Princess, Saint and Martyr, by Christopher Warwick
The biography of Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, who was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church as the Holy Imperial Martyr Saint Elisabeth Romanova. 352pp Hardcover
Price: $27.00
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