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.

Antique Russian Book: Author: Pushkin, Lermontov etc. Title: Set of  16 mini-books Binding: hard handmade leather art binding. Language: Russian, English Published: Moscow, 1997-2006 Condition: perfect  1. Pushkin A. S. the Tale of the priest and his worker Balda. 2. Shaw B. Mystery of the costume room, 2002. Edition of 500 copies, 112 p. 3. Basse M. in 2 volumes. and in a case(edition of 10 copies) - vol. 1 Haiku, vol. 2.Haiku. 4. Pushkin A. S. Talisman. Yaniko. 2006 (only 3 books - two in black and green binding of the same format, in black binding of a smaller format. 5. Leonardo da Vinci. Figures 6. Omar Khayyam. Rubai. 7. Lermontov. Lermontov and Moscow. To the 850th anniversary of Moscow. Yaniko 1997 (in Russian and English, coated paper 158 p.) 8. Pushkin. Pushkin and Moscow.To the 850th anniversary of Moscow. Yaniko 1997 (in Russian and English, coated paper 94 p. 9. What's the HAPS. I. D. Sytin Foundation.1997. Sawn-off under 'peacock feather' 192 p. 10. Pak A. Missing ribs. ALMI, 2011, 72 p. 11. Yazykov N. M. Lyrical poems. Yaniko. 2004. 144 p. 12. Snegurochka. The Snow Maiden. 2000. Color illustrations, coated paper, in Russian and English.64 p. artists -. Kaleria and Boris Kukuliev. 13. Sadko. 2000 128 p In Russian and English,. Coated paper. color illustrations by Kaleria and Boris Kukuliev.

Makarenko Vladimir (b. 1943) "Composition". 1985 Paper, pastel, ink, pen, 23,4×29,9 cm. In the lower right corner the author's signature and date: "Makar 85 Paris". Nonconformist artist. In 1963 he graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk art school in the Studio of Y. Kalashnik. For his thesis "In the blue land" in the manner of "geometric realism" was accused of formalism, the painting was destroyed, and the artist is deprived of the opportunity to continue his studies in Ukraine. He moved to Leningrad, where in 1963 he entered the monumental faculty of the Higher school of monumental art. V. Mukhina. In Leningrad, took private lessons in the studios N. Altman and P. Kondratiev. He was friends with artists M. Shemyakin, E. Rukhlin, V. Mishin, E. Esaulenko, V. Yankilevsky, A. Nemukhin and O. Tselkov. In 1969 he graduated and received a diploma of monumental artist. In the same year he became a member of the informal organization of nonconformist artists, known in the West as the "St. Petersburg group". In 1973 he was forced to leave Leningrad and move to Tallinn, where he quickly entered the artistic circle and took part in group exhibitions. In 1974, together with F. Humeniuk, V. Sazonov and V. by Strelnikov exhibited at the exhibition of Ukrainian nonconformist artists in Moscow in the apartment of a Man. In 1976 he held his first solo exhibition in Paris at the gallery Hardy. Living in Tallinn, he worked as a Stoker, refused to join the Union of artists. He worked in a small workshop, sometimes received orders for illustrations for magazines and Newspapers. In 1973 — 1980 he annually applied for departure to France, and only in 1981 he received permission and moved to Paris. Since then lives and works in Paris.

A luxurious vintage set of three crystal candies with a silver rim. A great nostalgic gift for the New year. Large, medium, small with handle. Silver 875 samples. Made in the USSR in the 1960-ies.Dimensions-small with handle-handle length 9 cm, girth-36 cm, diameter 12 cm, height 5 cm, height with handle 10 cm. Average-Girth 44 cm, diameter 15 cm, height - 7 cm. Large-height 7 cm, diameter 15 cm, girth 45 cm.

Vietnamese vintage silver women's set: mirror, powder box, hairbrush.Luxury exotic gift for the New year. Mid-20th century. Comb-length 22 cm, width 6 cm Compact-diameter 8 cm, girth 26 cm, height 3, 7 cm Mirror-length 25 cm, width-9 cm

Up for sale is a chess set from the USSR, 1970s. Size: board: 41x41 cm King height: 10 cm          base diameter: 3.5 cm Pawn height: 5 cm           base diameter: 3.5 cmАрт: полка инвентарь

Size :  approx. 62x42cm  A rare wartime poster. Pyotr Alexandrovich Alyakrinsky (1892-1961) was a Soviet graphic artist, poster artist, and Illustrator. Honored artist of the RSFSR (1945).  Condition: good с6   2013 note in the tube above my Desk

Soviet Avant-Garde Painter: Rabinovich Rosalia Moiseevna (1895, Kiev – 1988, Moscow) Avant-Garde Painting for Soviet posters  Aeroplan+Parachute 1933 Material: paper, gouache, metallic paint Technique of painting: combined Dimensions: 580 * 400 The first signed and inscribed in Cyrillic and dated 1933 (lower right)    Rosalia Rabinovich, 1895 (Kiev) – 1988 (Moscow) She was a painter, graphic artist, scenic designer, and she also worked in the applied and decorative arts. She was the sister of I.M. Rabinovich, the artist and scenic designer. Studied at the A.A. Murashko Drawing School in Kiev (1912-1916) and A.A. Ekster’s studio of decorative arts (1918-1919). Joined a group of radical artists and writers – the Literary Club of Artists, Writers, Performers, and Musicians – at the end of 1910. Moved to Moscow in 1919. First, she studied at A. Osmerkin and D. Scherbinovsky’s state-run art studios and then at Higher Art and Technical Studios at R. Falk’s studio (1920-1925), graduating the latter with the title of ‘First Class Painter’. She painted landscapes of Moscow and the Moscow suburbs, portraits, and other landscapes and made posters and industrial art, showing her work at exhibitions hosted by the Moscow Painters’ Society (1925), ROST (1928), and other institutions. Joined ROST in 1928. Member and advocate of the Society of Socially Active Artists (1928-1930). Started working at a hand painted fabrics factory in 1929. Started teaching theater design at the A. S. Bubnov Central House of Children’s Art in 1933. The dolls and costumes her students made for Alexander Pushkin’s 100th birthday garnered top prizes at an international exhibition in Paris and at a world exhibition in New York. Was the theater designer for a few plays, directed by B. Nord, at the Central State Youth Theater. Worked as an artist at a theater in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) from 1940 through 1943. Had solo exhibitions in Moscow (1963) and Klin (1977). In 2006, there was a retrospective of her work in Kiev. Rabinovich’s art works are displayed at many museums, including the Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, Nukus Museum of Art, State Museum-Reserve Schelykovo, as well as at galleries in Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, Donetsk, Klin, the New Jerusalem, Omsk, Tbilisi, and Chelyabinsk.

Antique Russian chess book: Author: Zukertort and Dufresne Guide to the chess game Published:  Saint Petersburg 1896 Binding: Hard Language: Russian 234 pages Condition: Transparent traces of moisture, owner's signature.EK27

Chess Book: Author: Panov, Estrin. Course of debuts   Published: Moscow, 1973 Language: Russian Binding: Hard 368 pages Signed by international masters and grandmasters: Bronstein, Podgaets, Taimanov, Gulko, Savon, Kuzmin, Vasyukov, Gufeld, Ivanov, Rashkovski, Klovan, Grigoryan, Chekhov Dorfman, Tukmakov, Timoshchenko, Tseshkovsky, Panchenko and international arbiter Goldberg.EK28

Collectible traditional Tuvan chess handmade from stone. The manufacture of chess is considered the highest skill of the stone-cutting art of Tuvan applied artists. Material: agalmatolite and wood. Technique: volumetric carving Chess figures: pawns ("boys", "ooldar") - mythical half-packs, rooks ("tergue") – in the form of "knots of happiness", knights ("ait") – in the form of a standing horse, elephant ("tev") – in the form of a camel, queen ("merze") – in the form of a large arzylan, a lion, a king ("noyon") - in the form of a sitting man in a national costume. The chess set includes: a chess board on a stand with drawers, chess pieces and scraps of fabric. Ebay Art Shelf