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HISTORY/ RUSSIA
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-- Biography & Autobiography
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Anton Chekhov: A Life, by Donald Rayfield
"Without question the definitive biography of Chekhov, and like to remain so for a very long time to come. . . . [Rayfield] captures a likeness of the notoriously elusive Chekhov, which at last begins to seem recognizably human - and even more extraordinary." - Michael Frayn. 674pp Paper
Price: $23.00
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Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography Volume 1, by Christopher Barnes
This authoritative new biography of the Russian poet and prose writer Boris Pasternak is the first part of a two-volume set, covering the period 1890-1928. 557pp Paper
Price: $99.00
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Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography Volume 2, by Christopher Barnes
This is the long-awaited concluding volume of Christopher Barnes's acclaimed biography of the Russian poet and prose writer, Boris Pasternak. 512pppp Paper
Price: $55.00
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Catherine the Great: A Short History (2nd Edition), by Isabel De Madariaga
"A panoramic view of Russia's social, political, economic, and cultural development and of its emergence as a formidable power in the international arena during the thirty-four years of [Catherine's] reign." - Anthony Cross, New York Times Book Review. 256pp Paper
Price: $15.00
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Cross and the Sickle (The): Sergei Bulgakov and the Fate of Russian Religious Philosophy, 1890-1920, by Catherine Evtuhov
Catherine Evtuhov resurrects the brilliant and contradictory currents of turn-of-the-century Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg through an intellectual biography of Sergei Bulgakov (1871-1944), one of the central figures of the Silver Age. 320pp Cloth
Price: $84.00
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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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Death of Tolstoy (The): Russia on the Eve, Astapovo Station, 1910, by William Nickell
Drawing on newspaper accounts, personal correspondence, police reports, secret circulars, telegrams, letters, and memoirs, Nickell shows the public spectacle of Tolstoy's last days to be a vivid reflection of a fragile, anxious empire on the eve of war and revolution. 432pp Hardcover
Price: $30.00
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