My Life for the Book : The Memoirs of a Russian Publisher [1 ed.] 9780773587533, 9780773540248

Available at long last, this volume is the posthumous memoir of a peasant from the depths of old Russia who rose to grea

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My Life for the Book : The Memoirs of a Russian Publisher [1 ed.]
9780773587533, 9780773540248

The life and times of Russia's leading pre-Revolutionary book publisher.

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Anna Pavlovna Vygodskaia's autobiography, originally published in 1938, is a rare and fascinating historical accoun

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This is a translation of one of very few Russian serfs' memoirs. Savva Purlevskii recollects his life in Russian se

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"My mother used to weave aaydans, the Marathi generic term for all things made from bamboo. I find that her act of

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Father Amorth was chief exorcist of the Vatican for twenty-five years, but few people know that before he became a pries

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Not only did Ivan Dmitrievich Sytin build Sytin & Co. into the largest publishing concern in Russia prior to the Rev

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