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Editore: New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, 1986
Da: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
Davydoff, Mariamna, 1871-1961. Memoirs of a Russian lady: drawings and tales of life before the Revolution. Selected and translated by Olga Davydoff Dax. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986, 156pp., very good dust-jacket, very good oblong blue cloth. Lovely illustrations throughout. - Mariamna Davydoff, the Russian lady who wrote and illustrated this memoir of her life before the Revolution, was born in 1871 into a large, aristocratic family whose ancestors can he traced back to the eleventh century. After fleeing Russia in 1919, she eventually settled in Brittany with a sister and there reproduced, from memory, albums of detailed text and watcrcolors that had been abandoned in Russia and were later destroyed by the Bolsheviks. The result is a unique, first-hand account of a way of life that we have previously known almost exclusively through the works of Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, and a few other writers of the late nineteenth century. Davydoff tells of her childhood, youth, and married life on a large country estate, and her nostalgic prose and fluidly rendered paintings evoke warm summer evenings filled with the smells of fields and forests, gay sleigh rides on frosty winter mornings, large families celebrating Christmas and Easter and engaging in various sports and pastimes of long ago. And through it all runs a sense of longing for these better, more innocent times - a sense of paradise lost. -- While a girl Mariamna Davydoff had studied painting at the Académie Julian and the Grande Chaumiere in Paris, and she later made something of a reputation in Russia as a caricaturist. But when she left her homeland, she had to leave most of her possessions behind, including the watercolors and drawings she had done before the Revolution. This memoir was originally created as a legacy for her daughter, her granddaughters, and her great-grandchildren, and now the selections presented here bring her charming and intimate work to a wider public. Olga Davydoff Dax, who edited and translated the memoirs, is related to Mariamna s husband, and she came across the memoirs when she met Mariamna s daughter in the United States in 1983. - 82 illustrations in full color. 9780810908390 ISBN 0810908395.
Editore: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1986
ISBN 10: 0810908395ISBN 13: 9780810908390
Da: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new, still in the protective shrink-wrap. ; 156 pages; Description: 156 p. : col. Ill. ; 24 x 27 cm. Subjects: Davydoff, Mariamna, 1871-1961 --Russian Revolution. 2 Kg.
Editore: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1986
ISBN 10: 0810908395ISBN 13: 9780810908390
Da: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
Libro Prima edizione
First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new, still in the protective shrink-wrap. ; 156 pages; Description: 156 p. : col. Ill. ; 24 x 27 cm. Subjects: Davydoff, Mariamna, 1871-1961 --Russian Revolution. 2 Kg.
Editore: London : Thames and Hudson, 1986
ISBN 10: 0500013888ISBN 13: 9780500013885
Da: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
Libro Prima edizione
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 156 p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 27 cm. Subjects; Davydoff, Mariamna (1871-1961). Davydoff, Mariamna Adrianovna (1871-1961). watercolor painting. Soviet Union Social conditions (1801-1917). Russia Social life and customs. Russia Social life and customs (1533-1917). Russia ; Biography. Soviet Union Social life and customs (1533-1917). Soviet Union Biography. Russia Social life and customs (1533-1917). Russia ; Biography. Russia Social life (ca. 1890-1917) Personal observations. Russia Social conditions (ca. 1890-1917). Genres; Autobiography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Editore: London : Thames and Hudson, 1986
ISBN 10: 0500013888ISBN 13: 9780500013885
Da: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 156 p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 27 cm. Subjects; Davydoff, Mariamna (1871-1961). Davydoff, Mariamna Adrianovna (1871-1961). watercolor painting. Soviet Union Social conditions (1801-1917). Russia Social life and customs. Russia Social life and customs (1533-1917). Russia ; Biography. Soviet Union Social life and customs (1533-1917). Soviet Union Biography. Russia Social life and customs (1533-1917). Russia ; Biography. Russia Social life (ca. 1890-1917) Personal observations. Russia Social conditions (ca. 1890-1917). Genres; Autobiography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.
Édition du Chêne,1987, un volume in 4° à l'italienne de 160 pages, reliure editeur et jaquette illustrée, Textes choisis et réunis par Olga Davydoff Dax. Nombreuses reproductions pleine page en couleurs et un arbre généalogique de la famille Davydoff. 3 parties : Matoussov, Kamenka, Doubrova. 2 accrocs sans manques à la jaquette, sinon très bon état.