Search Results: Titles starting with D from M.B.Rare Books

Lifetime edition. The first translation into Russian of one of the most important works of Hemingway. The collection includes four books: In Our Time, Men Without Women, Death After Noon, Winner Does not Receive Anything.
Good condition, worn binding.

The I All-Union Congress of Soviets is a congress of representatives of Soviets of workers, peasants and Red Army deputies, held on December 30, 1922 in Moscow.The congress approved the Declaration and the Treaty on the Formation of a New State - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Four states united in the USSR: the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, the Belorussian SSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR (SFSR - a socialist federal Soviet republic). In addition, the congress elected the Central Executive Committee of the USSR.
As of April 2021, KVK and WorldCat show no copies in libraries outdide Russia.

Iss. 1, Leningrad (St. Petersburg): Director's Department of the Bolshoi drama theater, 1926, (2), 65 pp., ill.; Iss. 2, N.F. Monakhov k 30-letiyu tvorcheskoy deyatel'nosti (N. F. Monakhov to the 30th actor's activity), Leningrad (St. Petersburg): Academia, 1926, 67 pp., ill.
The Russian State Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater is a world famous theater in St. Petersburg, founded in 1918, one of the first theaters created after the October Revolution.
Among the founders of the theater were Maxim Gorky, Alexander Blok, Alexander Benois. According to the idea of ​​the initiators, the theater was to become a citadel of a heroic repertoire, a theater of great social passions, excited revolutionary pathos, a theater of "great tears and great laughter" (A. Blok).
The theater's performances in the first years of its existence fully corresponded to the revolutionary program of its founders. At that time, the Soviet drama had not yet developed and the best works of world classics were shown on the stage of… Read More

Children and cinema. Collection. Moscow, Goskinoizdat, 1940, 108 pages, illustrations,This collection is historically the first attempt to raise the issue of children's creativity in cinematography. The collection includes film workers who have already accumulated well-known experience in working with children.

The cult of Stalin began in the 1930s and continued until his death. Numerous propaganda publications were issued. Some of them are common, but some are rare, in particular those issued for delegates to congresses and conferences.This album was made in Gori, a town in Georgia, where Stalin was born and where lived his mother and relatives.Insert folder with photos. To participant of the Republican rally of pioneers of Georgia. In a red publishing calico folder with gold lettering. A very rare edition issued for the delegates of the Pioneer congress.We cant find this small album in world`s libraries.

An impressive series of portraits made by an artist who was a witness of historical events changed world history. The portraits depict political figures of the Bolshevik Party — V. I. Lenin, A. M. Kollontai, Ya. M. Sverdlov, A. G. Zheleznyakov, A.V. Lunacharsky and many others.
Yuri Konstantinovich Artsybushev (1877-1952), an artist. In 1898, he entered the architectural department of the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, but did not finish the course. Since 1905, he published a satirical magazine of the democratic direction "Spectator", for which he was sentenced to imprisonment for 2.5 years in a fortress, but was acquitted on a cassation appeal to the Senate. In 1908, he moved to Moscow, being a member of the Moscow Literary and Artistic circle, he collaborated in the magazine "Krivoe Zerkalo", the newspaper "Rus'". He created a series of portraits of outstanding figures of Russian culture. After the February revolution and during the Civil War, he created a series of… Read More

Scientific work of the outstanding Russian philosopher, theologian, poet and scientist, priest Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky (1882–1937) - 'Russian Leonardo". Rare book.
Condition: Back cover missing.
As of April 2021, KVK and WorldCat show no copies in libraries outside Russia.

Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Applied Mathematics, which he defended on April 30, 1882. Nikolai Yegorovich Zhukovsky (1847-1921) was a Russian mechanical scientist, the founder of hydro-and aerodynamics, on which the whole aviation science is based.
In 1883, in the article "Application of the theory of higher-order acceleration centers to the Chebyshev guiding mechanism" [7], N. E. Zhukovsky applied the apparatus of the theory of higher-order accelerations (created in the works of A. Transon, A. Rezal and O. I. Somov) to the theory of mechanisms — in the problem of the synthesis of a symmetric rectilinear-guiding Chebyshev's mechanism [8].
In 1890, there was a publication in the Mathematical Collection of the Moscow University of a large work by N. E. Zhukovsky "Modification of the Kirchhoff's method for determining the motion of a liquid in two dimensions at a constant velocity given on an unknown current line". In the same year, he made an attempt to develop a theoretical basis for… Read More

200th anniversary of the birth of Dostoevsky! In the publisher's illustrated cover by N.P.Akimov, avant-garde designe. Minimal tears of the cover. On the front cover there is a rare drawing (it is almost always lost) — a sticker with an allegorical profile of Dostoevsky.
From the preface: "The Petersburg period of the beginning of his (Dostoevsky's) literary career seems to have been unusually stormy in sexual relations. Here, his sensuality pushed him not only to decent women, but "lost, but lovely creatures" were also not forgotten... So, he complains to his brother in a letter: "Minushki, Clarushki, Mariannas have become extremely prettier, but they are worth terrible money." The author analyzes Dostoevsky's personal novels and casual relationships and the influence of the writer's "sexual energy" on his work. "The Underground of Genius" is a study based on the famous theory of psychoanalysis of Z. Freud.
Very rare. WorldCat shows only one book copy in British Library ( other libraries have… Read More

An American actor, one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Founder and first president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts, was very popular in USSR in 1920-s. Avant-garde cover by the Russian artist Getmansky.

Green Bom! Collection of children's rhymes. With a preface by S.F. Rusova [with an autograph] Kyiv. Drukarnya of the Kyiv 2nd artel. 1916, 128 s.ill. , 12x19.5 cm.With the inscription by Rusova S.F. Sofia Fyodorovna Rusova (née Lindfors; 1856-1940, Prague) - Ukrainian teacher, prose writer, literary critic and public figure, one of the pioneers of the Ukrainian women's movement. In 1917 she was a member of the Ukrainian Central Rada. Under Hetman Skoropadsky, she headed the department of pre-school and out-of-school education in the Ministry of Education. Since 1922 in exile. The manuscript is presumably addressed to Alekseev M.S. (1896-1981) - a Soviet literary critic who taught in 1919-20 at Kiev University. Good condition, restoration of the spine with authentic paper. Rare edition. No copies in libraries.