Search Results: Authors starting with R from M.B.Rare Books

J. R. R. Tolkien. Khraniteli. Letopis' pervaia iz epopei "Vlastelin kolets" [The first part of the trilogy The Lord of the Rings] Moscow, Detskaia Literatura, 1982,333 p., 23,5 x 16,4 cm. Translations and retellings of "The Lord of the Rings" in Russian have existed since the 1960s in "samizdat". Zinaida Bobyr (it was she who created the first abridged version of the book), Alexander Gruzenberg, S. Umansky, and Vladimir Muravyov offered their own versions of translations. The first official edition, translated by Vladimir Muravyov and Andrey Kistyakovsky, was published only in 1982. The first part, "The Guardians", was published, the other two parts of the complete novel were not published until 1989.
First edition in Russian of a famous "The Fellowship of the Ring". Title and initials printed in blue and black. A very good copy in the original decorated cloth.

Sergej Rakhmaninov. All-Night Vigil. First edition!
Rakhmaninov Sergei. Vsenoshchnoe bdenie dlja smeshannago chora. Op. 37. Moskva, Petrograd, Paris, London, New-York, Rossijskoe Muzykal'noe Izdatel'stvo, 1915 , 91 pages.
S.V. Rachmaninov wrote "All Night Vigil" during the First World War. The work was first performed on March 10, 1915 in the Great Hall of the Noble Assembly in Moscow (now the Column Hall of the House of Unions) by the Synodal Choir under the direction of N.M. Danilina. The composer dedicated his work to S.V. Smolensky - an outstanding church musician and choral figure.
Rachmaninov's "All-Night Vigil" belongs to the pinnacle of choral art. This music is still recognized to this day as the unsurpassed "crown of the Moscow school" of sacred music.
"All-Night Vigil" was based on ancient church chants, which existed in the practice of Orthodox worship in different versions: znamennij, Greek, Kiev, as well as the composer's own musical themes, stylistically unified with the ancient… Read More

A popular novel by an English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist H. Rider Haggard. It tells about a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the missing brother of one of the party. It is the first English adventure novel set in Africa, and is considered to be the genesis of the lost world literary genre.
In Russia, Haggard's works began to be translated and published from the beginning of the XX century. In view of his popularity, the publisher P. P. Soykin in 1915 undertook the publication of the collected works in 20 volumes, which was sold out very quickly. In the 1920s, Haggard's novels were published in the USSR, and then came a long oblivion, Haggard was not published until the 1970s.
Haggard's translation of "The Mines of King Solomon", published in St. Petersburg in 1891, is the first book by Haggard to be translated into Russian.
As of July 2021, KVK and WorldCat show no one copy outside Russia.