Hardcover, dust jacket and gift case.   Published: Moscow 2010 Editor: Natalia Myagkova Language: Russian Format: Encyclopedic format Pages: 160 Binding: Hard Date: 2010   A luxurious photo album on coated paper! Lots of color and black-and-white illustrations. Only a few gift registered copies were published in hardcover.   This copy is published for Alexander Sergeevich Misharin, the former governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast, a region in Russia. He was appointed in 2009 after resignation of the previous governor, Eduard Rossel and resigned on May 14, 2012. Prior to his governorship, he made a career in the railway industry, rising to Russia's Deputy Railway Minister. He was appointed first vice-president of Russian Railways and head of Skorostniye Magistrali, the Russian high-speed rail developer and operator on November 28, 2012EK31

ANATOLY KARPOV. 3 VOLUMES:1. CLIMBING THE CHESS OLYMPUS2. THE BATTLE FOR THE CHESS OLYMPUS3. A VIEW FROM OLYMPUSA luxurious gift edition, only a few copies of which I have and which was never put on open sale. Coated paper, lots of large, beautiful color and black-and-white illustrations.This gift edition is dedicated to the famous Soviet and Russian chess player, multiple world champion Anatoly Karpov. The book was the first publication about the legendary grandmaster in more than 30 years.The plot of the books follows the chronology of Anatoly Karpov's life path. Starting with the story about the family and the hometown of Zlatoust, the first chess lessons given by his father, the narrative passes through a series of tournaments. The culminating matches are the matches for the title of world champion. More than a thousand pages contain a large number of games played by Karpov in different years. Therefore, the book is not only a biographical work, but also a unique guide for both beginners and experienced chess players.The three-volume collection contains about one and a half thousand photographs and documents related to the events of that time. The book also pays attention to the social activities of Anatoly Karpov, his current work on the development of the chess movement."This book would not have been possible without the family archive, which my mother started collecting from the first publication when I was seven years old. At first, the authors and I thought that we would fit into two volumes, but there was so much material that we decided to release the third one. It is a little smaller, but life goes on!", - said Anatoly Karpov, presenting the book.It was not put on open sale.Very large format (23.5*33.5 cm). Weight 5 kg 500 g.The set includes a branded gift bag.

Author: Granin D.  Title: Collected works in 8 volumes  Binding: hardcover, full (triple) gold cut  Language: Russian  Published: Saint-Petersburg 2009  592,496,496,544,560,576,512,512 pages with illustrations  Condition: perfect, books in typographic film.Numbered copy (90 copies published)  This edition is the most complete collection of works prepared for the anniversary of the classic of modern Russian literature Daniil Granin. It includes the landmark novels for the fifties and sixties "seekers" and "Going to the storm", the novels "Picture", "Flight to Russia", "evenings With Peter the Great", the famous stories "This strange life" and "bison", stories about the war, the stories "Our battalion commander", "Namesake", "Someone must", "notes to the guide", "Return ticket", essays "Two faces", "Sacred gift", "Thirteen steps", "someone else's diary" and "fear", the book "changing Shadows", journalism... In short, the best pages of Russian prose of the second half of the XX-beginning of the XXI century. A number of works are given in new author's editions. Famous graphic artists of Saint Petersburg worked on the collection of works: V. Babanov, R. Dominov, A. Kabanin, G. Lavrenko, Klim Li, V. Mishin, G. A.V. Traugot, O. Yakhnin. Each volume is accompanied by a short bibliographic index. The collection is printed in an edition of three thousand copies, of which ninety are made in special bindings, decorated with gold edging and numbered. We have just such a special set.   к583

Antique Soviet Chess Manuscript: Author: P.Romanovsky Manuscript of his lectures at Moscow State University. Written and signed by P. Romanovsky himself. Published: Moscow, 1951 Language: Russian 6 sheets Арт пк3

Antique Soviet Magazine:   Title: Ogonyok   Binding: hardcover of the time of publication quality binding. Covers calico, spine leather with faded gold lettering  Language: Russian Published: Moscow 1927 Condition: very good, with the preservation of original covers к196 

Chess "Police versus bandits." Material: figures - artificial stone; board - wood. Very heavy figures. Height of the king - 8.5 cm Pawn height - 5.5 cm Base diameter - 3 cm Condition: like new Art P11

Antique Soviet Magazine: Title: Timber industry Binding: solid composite semi-leather binding of the time of publication with gold lettering and leather corners Language: Russian Published: Moscow 1931 638 pages with illustrations. Condition: magazines are excellent, the binding is scuffed on the sides. Without seals and stamps, lots of drawings and illustrations. к564

Antique Russian Magazine: Title: Photographic News. Monthly illustrated magazine. Two annual sets in one binding. Binding: Hardcover, semi-leather Language: Russian Published: Saint Petersburg, 1914-1915 210 pages. + 192 pages + 9 inserts Condition: very good 1914. №4-12. Eighth year of publication: Incomplete annual set (without the first three issues). Separate full-page photographic appendices to the magazine - 7 sheets, a lot of advertising without pagination. Journal content (by section): Articles and notes on various issues, seventy-five-year anniversary of the existence of photography, Lenses, Photographic cameras and accessories, Records and films, Shooting and exposure Negative process, a Positive process and photographic paper, Colour image, Stereoscopy, enlarging and projection, Film, Competition announced by the editor of "Photographic News", All news, Photographic Society Exhibitions and competitions, Photographic literature, Useful tips Of the trade-industrial world, Anniversary, Obituaries, Mixture, Letters to the editor, Mailbox. 1915. Full annual set. From the contents: V. I. Sreznevsky. Problems of modern Russian industry, N. I. Bobir. On a modern topic, P. Zimin. One of the tasks of the modern moment, N. Ermilov. War and aerial photography, Cinema as a research tool. Interesting for historians of the First world war. к576

Author: G. R. Neiman Title: The Instruction for beginners. Third supplemented and corrected edition. Publisher: Lepehin Publishing House. S-Peterburg. 1892 Binding: Hardcover Language: Russian Pages: 188   Condition: the cover is in great condition. There are stains on some pages, corners of some pages have been restoredEK31

Collection tournament photo: young Kasparov Petrosyan, Geller, Vaganyan, Lutikov, Tseshkovsky, Kochiev. Vasiukov, Gaprindashvili, Chiburdanidze, Makarychev, Bielawski. USSR Spartakiade, 1979. Photo size 90 x 60 mm.

Antique Russian Magazine:  Title: News Of The Main Committee  Author: Lvov G.E.  Binding: Soft  Language: Russian  Published: Moscow 1916  200-300 pages in each magazine  Condition: approximately good, in several issues there are gaps and small losses of covers, several covers separately, there are pre-revolutionary library stamps.   Issues 30 (January 1 - 15) - 53 (December 1-15) All-Russian Zemstvo Union of assistance to sick and wounded soldiers. The publication is bi-weekly. The first 29 issues were published in 1914-1915. News of the all-Russian Zemstvo Union, news from the front, Assistance to Russian soldiers in captivity, Medical and sanitary Department, Leather business, activities of the Zemstvo Union in the theaters of war, turnover Statement, Balance sheet, Chronicle of the main Committee, and much more

Antique Polish Children's book:   Author: Marya Konopnicka.   Title: W domu i w swiecie.   Language: Polish   Binding: Hard   Published: Warsaw 1891   32 pages with 17 illustrations.   Condition: good.   In Polish language. Color children's book of the Russian Empire. Drawings of amazing quality. k580