Princess Maria Romanoff & July Estate Finds
Lot 49:
11 Russian books and books on Russia. Arakcheev: Grand Vizier of the Russian Empire, Michael Jenkins; Lord and Peasant in Russia, Jerome Blum; The Russian Dagger: Cold War in the Days of the Czars, Virginia Cowles; Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, Andrei Amalrik; Pawns of Yalta: Soviet Refugees and America’s Role in Their Repatriation, Mark R. Elliott; Mobilizing the Russian Nation: Patriotism and Citizenship in the First World War, Melissa Kirschke Stockdale, signed and inscribed by the author; Lenin in Zurich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Cyrillic); About the Abundant Life, Nikolay Arsenyev, with inscription (Cyrillic); History of Russian Philosophy, Nikolay Lossky (Cyrillic), Nostradamus (Cyrillic); Secret of the Emperor, Krupensky (Cyrillic). Arakcheev 9 1/4" x 6 1/4" x 1 1/4". Some with inscriptions. All with wear, tears, creases and losses to covers and dust jackets, some toning and foxing to pages. Provenance: Estate of Princess Maria "Mimi" Romanoff.
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