An anthology of Russian folktales /

Table of Contents: “…The Self-Playing Gusli -- About Ivan the Fool -- The Philosopher and the Cripple -- The Soldier Erema the Crafty -- The Peasant and the Devil -- The White-Bearded Old Man -- The Tsar and the Two Craftsmen -- The Wise Seven-Year-Old Girl -- Tsar Peter and the Clever Woman -- The Clever Daughter (or the Dispute over a Colt) -- How I Became Head of the Division -- The Merchants' Daughter -- A Hunter Rescues a Maiden -- The Woman from the Grave -- About Savvushka -- The Son-in-Law Teaches His Wife and Mother-in-Law -- How Peter and a Hunter Went Hunting -- Peter the Great Ate the Murzovka -- The Carefree Monastery -- Why There Is Treason in Rus -- Eaten by a Wolf -- How a Lad Bought Wisdom -- Why They Stopped Banishing Old Men -- How the Bear Killed the Robbers -- The Soldier and Death -- The Golden Pitcher -- Peter the Great and the Three Soldiers -- The Monk and the Abbess -- Balda the Laborer -- The Laborer and the Priest -- Horns -- How Klimka Stole the Landlord's WIfe -- Shabarsha the Laborer -- About a Sly Peasant and a Priest -- About Egibikha (Baba Yaga) -- A Lad Who Watched Rusalki -- The Tsar and the Peasant -- The Peasant and the Devil -- The Devil Takes the Soldier's Watch -- Whence Came Baba Yaga -- The Wizard -- The Dog Tsuvarnachka -- Those Folk from Pskov -- A Tailor or a Crayfish -- The Mares' Egg -- Kostia -- The Lord of the Manor -- How the Soldier Stole the Speck -- Unsalted Custard -- If you Don't Like It, Don't Listen! …”

Clothing culture, 1350-1650 /

Table of Contents: “…The cultural significance of costume books in sixteenth century Europe / Ulrike Ilg -- A question of nation : foreign cloth on the English subject / Roze Hentschell -- Tomb effigies and archaic dress in sixteenth century Ireland / Elizabeth Wincott Heckett -- The formation of Russian women's costume at the time before the reforms of Peter the Great / Oksana Sekatcheva. Marking distinctions. …”

100 Great Team Effectiveness Ideas. by Shaw, Peter

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Without the banya we would perish : a history of the Russian bathhouse / by Pollock, Ethan, 1969-

Bernhard Varenius (1622-1650) /

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The Routledge Atlas of Russian History. by Gilbert, Martin

Table of Contents: “…27 MOSCOW AND THE RIVERS OF EUROPEAN RUSSIA 1460 -- 186028 THE EXPROPRIATION OF LAND BY IVAN IV 1565 -- 1571; 29 RUSSIA IN THE TIME OF TROUBLES 1598 -- 1613; 30 THE POLISH AND SWEDISH INVAStONS 1610 -- 1618; 31 THE WESTWARD EXPANSION OF RUSSIA 1640 -- 1667; 32 SOCIAL UNREST 1648 and 1670; 33 RUSSIAN EASTWARD EXPANSION 1478 -- 1710; 34 TRADE AND INDUSTRY 1700 -- 1800; 35 THE COSSACKS 1500 -- 1916; 36 RUSSIAN WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE BALTIC 1721 -- 1945; SECTION TWO IMPERIAL RUSSIA; 37 WAR AND REVOLT UNDER PETER THE GREAT 1695 -- 1723; 38 THE PROVINCES AND POPULATION OF RUSSIA IN 1724.…”
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The Journal of Midshipman Chaplin : a Record of Bering's First Kamchatka Expedition. by Møller, Peter Ulf

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