THREE PUBLICATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN EMIGRATION

1) Deti emigratsii [Children of the Emigration]: a collection of articles / edited by Prof. V.V. Zenkovsky. Prague: Pedagogical Bureau for Russian Secondary and Primary Schools Abroad, 1925. 253, [3] pp.: tables; 23 x 16 cm. (No. 7). In the publisher’s wrapper. In good condition. Tears, creases and small losses along the edges of the wrapper. A remarkable testimony to the history of revolutionary Russia: an analysis of essays by children at émigré gymnasiums on the theme ‘What I Remember about Russia’, carried out by the Pedagogical Bureau headed by the famous Russian philosopher V.V. Zenkovsky (1881-1962). 2) SHEFFER N.P. (1899-1982) Russkaya pravoslavnaya ikona [The Russian Orthodox Icon]. Washington, 1967. 223, [4] pp.: ill.; 24 x 16 cm. In the publisher’s wrapper. In good condition. Slight fading to the edges of the wrapper. Natalia Petrovna Sheffer (née Lukina, by her first marriage Princess Volkonskaya; 1899-1982) studied iconography from 1929; in emigration she headed the Slavic department of the Dumbarton Oaks research library, the leading centre of American and international Byzantine studies, for twenty years. 3) Koroleva ellinov Olga Konstantinovna [Olga Konstantinovna, Queen of the Hellenes] / compiled by V.N. Polyakov and M.Yu. Garshin. [New York], 1959. 56 pp.: ill., portraits; 19.5 x 14.5 cm. In the publisher’s wrapper. In good condition. Ownership inscription on the title page. A biographical sketch of Grand Duchess Olga Konstantinovna (1851-1926), wife of King George I of Greece and granddaughter of Emperor Nicholas I, compiled by Colonel Valery Nikolaevich Polyakov and her private secretary Mikhail Yurievich Garshin.