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Russians in Space
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Hardcover. [8], 300, [4] pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. DJ worn and soiled with small tears. This work was prepared by the Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, Moscow. The author was a well-known Soviet journalist. He was a qualified pilot and devoted his entire later career to covering aviation and astronautics. He has 'flown' several space flights on simulators at the cosmonauts training center, knew many of them personally, and watched their selection and training. He may be the same Yevgeny Ryabchikov – the former Komsomolskaya Pravda’s journalist who served prison sentence for “counter-revolutionary activities” and came to Norilsk in 1943 at the Abraham Zavenyagin’s invitation. He was one of the first Norilsk newspaper For Metal and the bulletins Metal to the Front’s correspondents, issued trade leaflets. Yevgenii Ryabchikov wrote the screenplay for the first film about Norilsk The Giant of the Arctic. The film crew from Novosibirsk came to the northern city in 1945. The fact that the book about a tightly closed settlement was published is surprising. The decision to publish this book was taken at the very top in Moscow. More
Behind the High Kremlin Walls
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, c1986. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 248, index, DJ somewhat worn and soiled, tear in rear DJ, black and white photograph of both authors laid in. More
Yuri Andropov: A Secret Passage into the Kremlin
New York: Macmillan, c1983. First Printing. 24 cm, 302, illus., sticker residue on DJ. More
Behind the High Kremlin Walls
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 248, index, some wear, soiling, and creasing to DJ. More
Philip Mironov and the Russian Civil War
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. First Edition. First? Printing. 267, footnotes, notes, glossary, index, front DJ flap price clipped, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Galina; A Russian Story
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1]. 519,[7] pages. Occasional footnotes. Characters in a Russian Story. Illustrations. Repertory, Discography. Index. DJ worn, torn and chipped. The world-renowned diva describes her life in the Soviet Union, her marriage to cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, her operatic career, and their departure from Russia, in an account of artistic life in the USSR. Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (25 October 1926 – 11 December 2012) was a Russian opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was the wife of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 singing operetta. She won a competition held by the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (with Rachmaninoff's song "O, Do Not Grieve" and Verdi's aria "O patria mia" from Aida) in 1952. The next year, she became a member of the Bolshoi Theatre. On 24 March 1957, she made her debut in Finnish National Opera as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin. On 9 May 1960, she made her first appearance in Sarajevo at the National Theatre, as Aida. In 1961, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Aida; the following year she made her debut at the Royal Opera House as Aida. For her La Scala debut in 1964, she sang Liù in Turandot. Vishnevskaya also sang roles such as Violetta, Tosca, Cio-cio-san, Leonore, and Cherubino. Benjamin Britten wrote the soprano role in his War Requiem (completed 1962) specially for her, though the USSR prevented her from traveling to Coventry Cathedral for the premiere performance. The USSR eventually allowed her to leave in order to make the first recording of the Requiem. More
Galina; A Russian Story
San Diego, CA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. xiii, [1]. 519,[7] pages. Occasional footnotes. Characters in a Russian Story. Illustrations. Repertory, Discography. Index. DJ worn, torn and chipped. Signed by author on fep. The world-renowned diva describes her life in the Soviet Union, her marriage to Mstislav Rostropovich, her career, and their departure from Russia, in an account of artistic life in the USSR. Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (25 October 1926 – 11 December 2012) was a Russian opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 singing operetta. She won a competition held by the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (with Rachmaninoff's song "O, Do Not Grieve" and Verdi's aria "O patria mia" from Aida) in 1952. The next year, she became a member of the Bolshoi Theatre. On 24 March 1957, she made her debut in Finnish National Opera as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin. On 9 May 1960, she made her first appearance in Sarajevo at the National Theatre, as Aida. In 1961, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Aida; the following year she made her debut at the Royal Opera House as Aida. For her La Scala debut in 1964, she sang Liù in Turandot. Vishnevskaya also sang roles such as Violetta, Tosca, Cio-cio-san, Leonore, and Cherubino. Benjamin Britten wrote the soprano role in his War Requiem (completed 1962) specially for her, though the USSR prevented her from traveling to Coventry Cathedral for the premiere performance. The USSR eventually allowed her to leave in order to make the first recording of the Requiem. More