Search Results: Titles starting with V from Globus Books

Москва: Молодая гвардия, 2008. Переплёт: Твёрдый Страниц: 350, с иллюстрациями Несчастнейшей из человеческих жизней может быть названа жизнь героя этой книги, императора-младенца Ивана VI Антоновича (годы царствования 1740-1741). Виновный лишь в том, что появился на свет наследником российского престола, ставший в двухмесячном возрасте царем, он процарствовал чуть более года, был свергнут и вместе с семьей посажен под стражу. Весь остаток своей жизни - а прожил он неполных двадцать четыре года - несчастный провел в заточении, причем последние восемь лет - в… Read More

New York: Russian World Gallery, 1995. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 56 Каталог выставки. Описание работ на русскои и английском языках. Exhibition album. Work titles are in Russian and English.

Москва: Академия наук СССР, 1953. Переплет: Твердый, суперобложка Страниц: Т. 2. 744 с., ил. Т. 4. 952 с., ил. Т. 5. 820 с., ил. Т. 6. Кн. 1. 512 с., ил., Кн. 2. 632 с., ил. Надрывы суперобложек, блоки и переплеты в хорошем состоянии. Отсутсвуют 1, 3 тома. Подробное потомное описание по запросу. Общий вес 27,7 фунтов (12,5 кг.) Издание "История Москвы" охватывает историю Москвы от первых упоминаний о ней в источниках до середины ХХ века. Второй том относятся к периоду феодализма XVIII вв. Четвертый и пятый тома посвящены периоду капитализма и империализма. Шестой том посвящен истории… Read More

Франкфурт: Посев, 1991. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 127, с иллюстрациями Последний номер 1991 года, посвящен Югославии и СССР.

Москва: Изобразительное искусство, 1959. Букинистика Переплет: Твердый Страниц: 47, с иллюстрациями В седьмой выпуск альбома "Русская живопись в музеях РСФСР" включены избранные произведения живописи Серпуховского историко-художественного музея, Пензенской областной картинной галереи имени А.К.Савицкого и Орловской областной картинной галереи. Приводятся краткие данные об истории музеев и справочные сведения о представленных в альбоме произведениях живописи.

Москва: Искусство, 1969. Переплет: Твердый Страниц: 304, с иллюстрациями Повреждения суперобложки Формат: Энциклопедический Иллюстрированный альбом посвящён Государственному литературно-мемориальному музею-заповеднику А.П. Чехова. В нём представлены наиболее примечательные эпизоды из истории становления музея А.П. Чехова в Мелихове с момента его организации до наших дней. Читатель получит уникальную возможность познакомиться с наиболее ценными предметами из музейной коллекции, а также совершить экскурсию по чеховскому Мелихову и его… Read More

Москва: Крон-Пресс, 1996. Переплёт: Твёрдый Страниц: 336, с иллюстрациями Красавицы и дурнушки, умницы и легкомысленные дурочки - все шесть жен Генриха VIII были очень разные. Счастливой, правда, этот любвеобильный монарх не сделал ни одну. Хотя эта книга - не роман, жизнь двора Генриха Тюдора с его интригами, тайнами, кровавыми развязками предстает перед читателем так зримо, будто смотришь первоклассный голливудский фильм.

Moscow: Tsentrizdat, 1928. 39 pp.: ill. 23x15 cm. In original illustrated wrappers. Tears of spine and back cover, upper corners of covers lost, otherwise very good and clean internally. One of 5000 copies. Covers are in German and Russian, poetry is in German. Cover design by V. Lots features typical for the Soviet satire posters comparison of two opposite pictures. These two showed living conditions of peasants in bourgeois and proletarian countries. Ten illustrations within the text were produced by R. Fink. Collection of anti-bourgeois and anti-religious poems for a large Volga German minority released by the German department of MAPP [Moscow Association of Proletarian Writers]. Settlements of Volga Germans began to appear in Povolzhye in the 18th century after Catherine the Great had invited Europeans to this region. By the early 20th century, 190 settlements of over 400 thousand people were recorded. After the October Revolution, the Soviet authorities established the Autonomous Oblast of… Read More

Freedom Letters, 2023. New Book. Переплет: Мягкий Страниц: 508 VZ Дмитрия Быкова - не биография Владимира Зеленского. И это даже не книга о войне. VZ - особенно её третья часть, «Мистерия» - о, возможно, финальной битве архаики и прогресса. О битве, разворачивающейся на наших глазах и с нашим - хотим мы того или нет - непосредственным участием. VZ - главный герой этой книги. Неожиданно для самого себя направивший XXI век по верному пути. Оказавшийся орудием того самого Абсолюта, в существование которого мир уже почти не верил, развращаясь неразличением добра и зла и мифом о… Read More

Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2019. New book. Paperback 260 pp. As a young reporter in Uzbekistan, Bagila Bukharbayeva was a witness to her countrys search for an identity after the collapse of the Soviet Union. While self-proclaimed religious leaders argued about what was the true Islam, Bukharbayeva shows how some of the neighborhood boys became religious, then devout, and then a threat to the country's authoritarian government. The Vanishing Generation provides an unparalleled look into what life is like in a religious sect, the experience of people who live for months and even years in hiding, and the fabricated evidence, torture, and kidnappings that characterize an authoritarian government. In doing so, she provides a rare and unforgettable story of what life is like today inside the secretive and tightly controlled country of Uzbekistan. Balancing intimate memories of playmates and neighborhood crushes with harrowing stories of extremism and authoritarianism, Bukharbayeva gives a voice… Read More

Alexandria: Time-Life Books, 1981. Hardcover, 175 pp. Condition: very good The Venetians' is part of a series of reference books by Time-Life Books. There are many stories, sketches and photographs throughout the pages of this book.

Modern Humanities Research Association, 1989. Binding: Paperback Maiakovskii himself said that a rhythmical 'rumble' was the basis of his verse, and demonstrated the actual generation of his verse from the bare rhythmical gul through intermediate versions to its final verbal form. In this study Aizlewood examines the role played by meter in Maiakovskii's first major work Vladimir Maiakovskii. Tragediaa, and in five main love poems. These works can be interpreted as a composite whole, a single text in effect: the Tragedy serves as an introduction to an exploration in five parts of the theme of love.

Deep Vellum Publishing, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 198 pp. Six of the most remarkable contemporary Russian poets present their groundbreaking verse in a bilingual poetry collection published in partnership with PEN America's Writers in Dialogue project. In 2020, as international travel skidded to a halt, PEN America's Writers in Dialogue project--which opens the exhilarating world of contemporary Russian poetry to American readers by bridging the American and Russian literary communities--went remote, using online connection to foster collaborations between daring emerging or undertranslated poetic voices and dexterous translators. In this remarkable volume, the Russian poets and American translators who were paired for this initiative present their collaborative work in a bilingual format, along with conversations about the pleasures, challenges, and intimacies of translation. English-reading audiences will have an opportunity to experience the boldness and range, stylistic and thematic, of… Read More

New Vessel Press, 2016. New Book. Hardcover 160 pp. "This collection features 12 Russian stories from the 19th and early 20th centuries ... Some of the pieces here appear in English for the first time, and stories from notable Russian authors Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Tolstoy are included." -- Library Journal Running the gamut from sweet and reverent to twisted and uproarious, and with many of the stories appearing in English for the first time, this is a collection that will satisfy every reader. Dostoevsky brings stories of poverty and tragedy, Tolstoy inspires with his fable-like tales, Chekhov's unmatchable skills are on full display in a story about a female factory owner and the wretched workers, Klavdia Lukashevitch delights with a sweet and surprising tale of a childhood in White Russia, and Mikhail Zoshchenko recounts madcap anecdotes of Christmas trees and Christmas thieves. There is no shortage of vodka or wit in this volume that proves, with its wonderful variety and… Read More

The New Review Publishing, 2022. New Book. Paperback. 208 pages, illustrations. Princess Vera Obolensky, known as Vicky, has distinguished herself during World War II as an active resister against the horrors of the Nazi regime and Hitler's military occupation. Нег dedication to the cause of freedom stands out as а shining example of an unwavering moral compass. А co­founder of а major French resistance network, she became an efficient worker at the center of its complex intelligence­gathering operations. Caught in the occupiers' dragnet, she withstood the pressure of exhausting interrogations without betraying any secrets. Neither the prison nor the death sentence could break her spirit; even in the face of а cruel execution, Vicky maintained her dignity and endeavored to uphold the morale of her imprisoned comrades. This non-fictional biography is dedicated to her memory. Ludmila Obolensky-Flam was born in Latvia to Russian emigre parents and came to the US after World War II. Неr… Read More

Two Dollar Radio, 2020. Binding: Paperback As Communism begins to crumble in Prague in the 1980s, Jana's unremarkable life becomes all at once remarkable when a precocious young girl named Zorka moves into the apartment building with her mother and sick father. With Zorka's signature two-finger salute and abrasive wit, she brings flair to the girls' days despite her mother's protestations to not "be weird." But after scorching her mother's prized fur coat and stealing from a nefarious teacher, Zorka suddenly disappears. Meanwhile in Paris, Aimée de Saint-Pé married young to an older woman, Dominique, an actress whose star has crested and is in decline. A quixotic journey of self-discovery, Virtuoso follows Zorka as she comes of age in Prague, Wisconsin, and then Boston, amidst a backdrop of clothing logos, MTV, computer coders, and other outcast youth. But it isn't till a Parisian conference hall brimming with orthopedic mattresses and therapeutic appendages when Jana first encounters Aimée,… Read More

Москва: Советская Россия, 1972. Переплет: Твердый, суперобложка Страниц: 68, с иллюстрациями Владимир - крупный административно-промышленный и культурный центр Владимирской области, награжденной за успехи в развитии народного хозяйства и культуры орденом Ленина. Книга на четырёх языках. Photoalbum in English, German, and French. Состояние книги: небольшой надрыв суперобложки.

Нью-Йорк: Хроника, 1976. Страниц: 16 с. Обычный формат. На английском языке. В издательской обложке с фотопортретом Буковского. Вложен бланк подписки на правозащитные издания некоммерческого издательства «Хроника» (Khronika Press). Книга о самом известном политзаключенном СССР, писателе и политическом деятеле Владимире Буковском. В 1976 году внимание всего мира привлекло дело Буковского. 18 декабря состоялся обмен советского диссидента Буковского на чилийского политзаключенного, лидера Коммунистической партии Чили Луиса Корвалана. Известна частушка,… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 1977. Binding: Hardcover, dust jacket Pages: 139 A personal and literary tribute to Vladimir Nabokov, the author of "Lolita," "Ada" and "Pale Fire." VN's life, his work and the world in which he wrote are all addressed in these powerful essays. Peter Quennell is a biographer and critic, editor of 'History today' Light tear of the dust-jacket.

New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. New Book. Paperback. 360 pp. Maria Stepanova is one of the most powerful and distinctive voices of Russia's first post-Soviet literary generation. An award-winning poet and prose writer, she has also founded a major platform for independent journalism. Her verse blends formal mastery with a keen ear for the evolution of spoken language. As Russia's political climate has turned increasingly repressive, Stepanova has responded with engaged writing that grapples with the persistence of violence in her country's past and present. Some of her most remarkable recent work as a poet and essayist considers the conflict in Ukraine and the debasement of language that has always accompanied war. The Voice Over brings together two decades of Stepanova's work, showcasing her range, virtuosity, and creative evolution. Stepanova's poetic voice constantly sets out in search of new bodies to inhabit, taking established forms and styles and rendering them into something… Read More