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VASILISA THE BEAUTIFUL
A Russian Folk Fairy Tale
One of the most popular folk tales in the treasury of Russian fairy stories is about a merchant’s daughter and her trusty helper – a magical doll-amulet. Here the telling of this enchanting fable is augmented by hand-tinted lithographs, original calligraphy, insets and vignettes.
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Nikolai Gogol
THE NOSE
An absurd satirical short story by the famous Russian dramatist, superbly illustrated by the Saint Petersburg graphic artist Boris Zabirokhin.
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Alexei Remizov
WHAT IS TOBACCO
Gonosy’s Tale
This book is the first official publication of a story by the great Russian writer Alexei Remizov that, due to a combination of irrational, mystical circumstances, was destined never to become a generally acknowledged masterpiece of world erotic literature.
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THE THIRTY-SIX STRATAGEMS
An Ancient Chinese treatise
For many years this treatise was a restricted source of great Chinese wisdom passed on as arcane knowledge. The stratagems are not merely military cunning, but the key to the secrets of success, the science of power and the art of communicating and managing people.
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Piotr Tchaikovsky
SWAN LAKE
A unique joint project between the Rare Books from Saint Petersburg publishing house and Russia’s State Academic Bolshoi Theatre. The book contains facsimile extracts from a score of the ballet written in Tchaikovsky’s own hand that are illustrated with lithographs made in the rare sfumato technique.
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Tamara Bukovskaya
GIACOMERON
The book Giacomeron contains a cycle of poems by Tamara Bukovskaya, a poet, essayist, translator and full member of the Academy of Russian Verse, that was inspired by the autobiography of Giacomo Casanova (Histoire de ma vie, 1791–98).
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Anacreon
TWELVE POEMS
This publication presents the exquisite, light-hearted erotically charged works of the Greek lyric poet, a life-affirming eulogizer of sensual love, wine and feasting, whose work and personality still arouse lively interest today.
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