Former empire in Eurasia and North America (1721–1917)

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St. Petersburgh: a journal of travels to and from that capital. Through Flanders, the Rhenich provinces, Prussia, Russia, Poland, Silesia, Saxony, the federated states of Germany, and France / By A.B. Granville.

A senior German army doctor being driven at speed in a horse-drawn carriage. Coloured lithograph, c. 1870.

An old physician taking the pulse of a seated patient; representing the sense of touch. Aquatint with etching by J.-B. Le Prince, 1775.

Malaria: a construction worker receiving medical attention designed to prevent the spread of malaria. Colour lithograph after A.D. Polumordvinov and others, 1953.

A woman in Russia is sitting at a table selling bread to an Albanian soldier wearing a long cloak; a child is curled up asleep on the ground. Etching by J.B. Le Prince, 1765.

Between the lines : letters and diaries from Elsie Inglis's Russian Unit / arranged and edited by Audrey Fawcett Cahill.

Newton and Russia : the early influence, 1698-1796 / [Valentin Boss].

Trid︠t︡satʹlet dei︠a︡telʹnosti Instituta onkologii Akademii medi︠t︡sinskikh nauk SSSR, 1926-1956 : itogi kliniko-lechebʹnoĭ, nauchno-issledovatelʹskoi i organiz︠a︡tsionnoĭ raboty / pod redak︠t︡sieĭ A.I. Serebrova, S.A. Kholdina i ... A.V. Ckaklina.

Lebendige Verbindungen : Biobibliographisches Lexikon der Biochemiker zwischen Deutschland und Russland im 19. Jahrhundert / Marta Fischer.

The disappearance of the Russian queen, or How the Soviet closet was born / Dan Healey.

Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks / par Alexis de Levchine ... Traduite du russe par Ferry de Pigny ... Revue et publiée par E. Charrière.

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Description des hordes et des steppes des Kirghiz-Kazaks ou Kirghiz-Kaïssaks / par Alexis de Levchine ... Traduite du russe par Ferry de Pigny ... Revue et publiée par E. Charrière.