1910-1919

Wallet
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Large leather wallet belonging to Basil Troussoff. Contents include various passes from his time as a munitions inspector for the Russian Army just before the Revolution, as well as calling cards and other personal cards from other points in his...

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Art & handicraft exposition of Soviet Russia / sponsored by Amtorg Trading Corporation, New York
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Russian Folk Art Books and Exhibit Catalogs

Catalogs in Russian and English for exhibits of the folk art of various ethnic groups in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union...

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The Mir Isskustva Movement (The World of Art Movement)

Benois, Alexandre.
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Russian Art Aleksandri, L. N. V. I. Shukhaev: vystavki c Moskve i Leningrade [В. И Шухаев : выставки с Москве и Ленинграде; V.I. Shukhaev: Exhibits from Moscow and Leningrad] Leningrad: Izd. Vakh, 1936. 759.71 S562V Gift of Gail Troussoff Marks...

Vassily and Elena Troussoff's Russian Passports
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External passports (Заграничный паспорт) with green covers issued by the Russian government to Vassily (Basil) and Elena Troussoff in 1915, the year that they traveled to New York for Vassily to work as a munitions inspector for the Russian Army...

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Детство знаменитых людей; The Childhoods of Famous People
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A collection of biographical stories about the childhoods of well-known Russian and European writers, artists, and musicians, including Dante, Da Vinci, Zhukovsky, and Beethoven. The stories are narrative and there are several illustrations...

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История архитектуры: составленная по сравнительному методу; A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method
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A three volume set of Banister Fletcher's A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method, a classic architecture textbook widely used during the twentieth century. 

Fletcher, Banister, Sir.
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Миросозерцание Вл. С. Соловьева; The Worldview of Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov
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A biography of religious philosopher Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov (1853-1900), written by Evgenii Nikolaevich Trubetskoi (1863-1920), who along with his brother Sergei (1863-1905), continued Solovev's work of developing a world Christian...

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Новый завет Господа нашего Иисуса Христа; The New Testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ
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A copy of the New Testament of the Bible in Russian, published by the American Bible Society in 1918. The society translates and distributes Bibles, and this edition was published at a point when Russian Refugees were arriving in the United...

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