Imperial Russia

The knout and the Russians; or, The Muscovite empire, the Czar, and his people
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Imperial Russia and Muscovy

These books mostly cover the Russian Empire and its rulers, established after the reforms of Peter the Great and the building of St. Petersburg....

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A satirical first-person account of the live of Ivan Vejeeghen (commonly spelled Vyzhigin), a Russian orphan peasant growing up in the early 19th century. The novel is considered to be the first Russian best-seller, quickly outselling in Russia...

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Letter From Empress Catherine III
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A letter from Empress Catherine III, Empress of the Russian Government in Exile based in Cheverly, Maryland, to the students and Faculty of Dickinson College on March 21, 1965. Little information can be found about who "Catherine III" was or and...

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Count Adam Gurowski (1805-1866) was a Polish aristocrat who lost his estates and was exiled at various times in his life for opposing the Russian occupation of partitioned Poland. He ultimately immigrated to the United States where he played an...

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Travels in Siberia
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Travel Literature in English and Russian
The titles in this bibliography consist of nineteenth century and early twentieth century literature about travels in various parts of...

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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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Полотенце в русском быту; The Towel in Russian Everyday Life
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A short ethnographic pamphlet about the use of towels in late nineteenth century Russian life.

Blomquist, E.
Polotentse v russkom bytu. [Полотенце в русском быту; The Towel in Russian...

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