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Limited to 5 000 copies.This list was prepared by the Research Institute of Librarianship and Recommended Bibliography of People's Commissariat for Education. It includes fiction and nonfiction books about women in Tsar Russia and their role in October Revolution and Socialism construction, books about Female Stakhanovites, about the women's situation in the Soviet Republics and abroad, about parenting and Bolshevik classical works. Very rare.We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in USA or European libraries via OCLC.

Lithographic original edition of this reduction. Tchaikovsky started to work on the score before his only trip to the US in May 1891. He held Opening Night concert at Carnegie Hall in New York, his appearance make Hall an important musical venue in the United States. After his return home he continued to work to the ballet with Marius Petipa on the libretto adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story The Nutcracker and the Mouse King. The first performance of The Nutcracker was held at the Mariinsky Theatrein St. Petersburg on the 18th December 1892. The Nutcracker became a Christmas tradition for many Americans since George Balanchine staged it in 1955. This reduction for piano prepared by Tchaikovsky's close friend Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915). Tchaikovsky dedicated to him Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32. The reduction of The Nutcracker is one of the most important works by Taneyev. Publisher Pavel Jurgenson had exclusive rights for printing Tchaikovsky's works. We couldn't trace any copy of this reduction in US… Read More

The book is devoted to the most influential and important women in the world history of warfare and their deeds: the Amazons, Deborah (prophetess of the God of the Israelites), Olga of Kiev (regent of Kievan Rus' for her son Sviatoslav), Joanna of Flanders (Duchess of Brittany), Joan of Arc, Alena Arzamasskaia (the Russian Joan of Arc, who fought in Cossack Stepan Razin's (Peasants' Revolt) revolt of 1670), "Amazons battalion" (special corps for Catherine II the Great in Crimea), female soldiers in the South America wars of independence (1808-1824), Agustina de Aragon (the Spanish Joan of Arc), Nadezhda Durova (Russian patriotic icon who participated in the Napoleonic wars in the Russian cavalry as a man), Vasilisa Kozhina (Russian guerrilla in the Patriotic War of 1812), Eliza Lynch ('National Heroine' of Paraguay), Milunka Savic (Serbian war heroine), Evgeniya Shakhovskaya (Russian pioneering aviator), Constance Markievicz (Irish suffragist who was the first female cabinet minister in Europe), Maria… Read More

Collection of verses by the prominent Soviet poet Demyan Bedny (Yefim Pridvorov; 1883-1945). These verses are devoted to Middle East women who want to break free and to be independent from a man's world. We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in USA or European libraries via OCLC.

N.p., ca 1933.Extremely rare Russian abstract handmade paste paper from the 1930s.
Russian artist Mikhail Tarkhanov (1888-1962), a master of endpapers and bookbinding, created it. He used the special technique of surface painting onto paper with the paste mixture. Each one of them is unique. Paste papers, the oldest decorated papers used by bookbinders, are practically unknown in Russia. Mikhail Tarkhanov studied at the Stroganov School for Technical Drawing (which later became VKhUTEMAS) under Vladimir Favorsky and Wassily Kandinsky. Since the beginning of the 1930s abstract art was banned in the USSR. However, Tarkhanov made official works at the same time as his abstract compositions. Sometimes the book design was the only way to create in avant-garde style, as for writers translating became the only way to work as a man of letter in the USSR. Some Tarkhanov's works locates in the Getty Center. The endpaper is from Tarkhanov's private collection.

Rare ephemera. War time edition. Nice typographic design. This advertising leaflet includes information about the content and supplements to Woman (1907-1917), Fashion Light (1868-1916), and XXth century (1910-?) magazines. The content was changed because of the Great War (war stories and images appeared) but the magazines continued to publish in good design. Furthermore, after the War began women's role changed and Women and War articles became common in these issues. Books for women and their kids advertising and satirical periodicals promotion are also published in the brochure.

The first leaflet is about Soviet silent film actress Olga Tretiakova (1900/1902?-?), known for Brigade Commander Ivanov (1923). She was also the secretary of the actors' subsection of ARK (the Association of Revolutionary Cinematography) which had been established to publicize the plight of actors. Tretiakova demanded that writers create good roles for actors and urged directors to discuss the roles with them. She was a wife of military leader Alexander Postnikov. During the Great Terror he was executed and Olga died in a camp.OCLC locates two copies of this edition: in the Harvard Library and the Berlin State Library. The second leaflet is about a Russian silent film actress Vera Malinovskaia (1900-1988) who debuted in 1924 and starred with Mary Pickford in 1927. The following year Malinovskaia starred in a German film Waterloo and stayed in Germany. She visited the USSR only once as a guest at the 11th Moscow International Film Festival in 1979. Malinovskaia died in Monaco.

Most likely, the second (bigger) photo is unknown. These photos depicted the crew of Rodina (Fatherland) aircraft which performed a non-stop flight between Moscow and the Sea of Okhotsk on September 25, 1938. The aircraft crew consisted of commander Valentina Grizodubova (1909-1993), co-pilot Polina Osipenko (1907-1939), and navigator Marina Raskova (1912-1943). During the flight lasting 26 hours 29 minutes, a female world was established aviation range record. In adverse weather condition and with the failed radio equipment the crew flew by and Khabarovsk, which originally was the final point of the route. The plane was land on the belly directly to the swamp. Before that, Marina Raskova jumped with a parachute, as she was in the navigator's glass-enclosed cockpit in the nose of the aircraft, which could seriously suffer during landing. The crew was found in the taiga only on October 3.On November 2 Grizodubova, Osipenko and Raskova become the first women who were awarded the title of Hero of the… Read More

Rare. Most likely, one of the firsts Russian pop-up book. 25 000 copies were issued. Toy book without any text.This book was issued by the Museum for the Protection of Motherhood and Infancy in Moscow under the Department of the People's Commissariat of Health. It was opened in 1923 for the 5th anniversary of Soviet medicine. Unfortunately, we couldn't find any information about the artist of this book. We couldn't trace any copy of this edition in USA or European libraries via OCLC.

Second edition. The book includes memories and autobiographical stories of women who participated in the Russian Civil War in North Caucasus and Ukraine in 1917-1920. It was compared by the researchers who prepared the well-known Soviet edition the History of the Civil War in the USSR (5 vol., 1942-1960).OCLC locates five copies of this edition: in the Harvard Library, the Texas A&M University Library, the University of Chicago Library, the UC Berkeley Library and the British Library.

Second edition of 'Natasha Rostova's book'.The writer Tatiana Kuzminskaia (nee Bers 1846-1925) was younger sister of Sophia Bers who became the wife of Leo Tolstoy. Tatiana was very close with Tolstoy her whole life. She was one of the main prototypes for Natasha Rostova in Tolstoy's War and Peace and for now she is best known for her reminiscences about Tolstoy and life in Iasnaia Poliana.This is one of the first Kuzminskaia's books and it was issued anonymously by Tolstoy's publishing house. The covers made by Mikhail Malyshev (1852-1912) - peredvizhnik, close friend of the Russian writer Vsevolod Garshin. Extremely rare.Russian State Library has one defect copy only. National Library of Russia has no any copy.We couldn't trace any copy of this or any other old edition in USA via OCLC.OCLC locates one copy of this edition only: in the Cambridge University Library in UK.

This book was prepared by Aleksandra Bogat (1898-?), the Cavalry Maiden and the head of intelligence of the 21st Cavalry Regiment in the 1st Cavalry Army (also known as "Budyonny's Cavalry Amy"). Unfortunately, we do not know anything about the author's later life, except that she wrote several feminist brochures and books. For the first time, Russian women were allowed to participate in the war as soldiers not nurse only in 1917 during The Great War. The Provisional Government allowed the formation of separate women's battalions. During the Civil War, new authorities lifted old restrictions and allowed women join to army as soldiers. This book talks about this women's experience for the first time in Russia. For censorship reasons, stories about women's battalions during the Great War in Russian were published only at the end of the XXth century. The book also includes the story about Paraskovia Gedymin, the Khakas (in the book – the Buryat), who become the first representative of the Khakass… Read More

Handwritten miniature children's magazine created by an unknown child. Issues includes fairy tales, short stories, verses (by Russian children's poets), riddles, rebuses, magazine subscriber's drawings and 'readers' letters'. According to these letters, a child made this magazine in a countryside, where she/he spent summer holidays. In 'Our Post' column a child wrote that she/ he missed his friends, who was in Moscow. The first issue includes a comics Strange Illness about a pelican who swallowed balloons and the well-known Russian folk tale Teremok (# 1) in an old version where animals lived in a horse skull. The magazine dates for the pre-revolutionary orthography.