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• Memories of forty years (Funk and Wagnalls, 1915), by Catherine Radziwill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rasputins Ende : Erinnerungen (Pantheon-Verlag, 1928), by F. F. I͡Usupov, D. Chasin, and Klabund (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le fin de Raspoutine. (Librairie Plon, 1927), by F. F. I︠U︡supov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Secrets of dethroned royalty (John Lane company;, 1920), by Catherine Radziwill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beskrifning om muschofsche rijkets staat : författat och skrifwin af een rysk cantzelist (Aktiebolaget Ljus, 1908), by Grigoriĭ Karpovich Kotoshikhin and Gustaf Adde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scenes of Russian court life; being the correspondence of Alexander I. with his sister Catherine (Jarrolds, limited, 1915), by Emperor of Russia Alexander I, Henry Havelock, grand duke of Russia Nicholas, and king of W-u̲rttemberg Catherine queen consort of William I (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The court of Alexander III; letters of Mrs. Lothrop, wife of the late Honorable George Van Ness Lothrop, former minister ... of the United States to Russia (The John C. Winston company, 1910), by Almira Strong Lothrop and William Prall (page images at HathiTrust)
• The court of Russia in the nineteenth century. (Methuen, 1908), by E. A. Brayley Hodgetts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bilder aus einer versunkenen Welt; Lebenserinnerungen. (August Scherl, 1922), by Marie von Keller Kleinmichael (page images at HathiTrust)
• The courtships of Catherine the Great (Brentano's, 1925), by Philip W. Sergeant (page images at HathiTrust)
• ... Souvenirs de ma vie. Avec 52 photographies hors-texte et 39 lettres inédites adressées à Anna Viroubova par le tsar, la tsarine, le tsarévitch et les grandes duchesses, durant leur captivité. (Payot, 1927), by Anna Aleksandrovna Vyrubova and N. Bogoraze (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russian court memoirs, 1914-16, with some account of court, social and political life in Petrograd before and since the war (E. P. Dutton & company., 1917), by B. W., W. B., and pseud A Russian (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rasputin, the holy devil (Viking Press, 1929), by René Fülöp-Miller, D. F. Tait, and F. S. Flint (page images at HathiTrust)
• The courtships of Catherine the Great (T. W. Laurie., 1905), by Philip W. Sergeant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russische Günstlinge. (G. Mu̲ller, 1917), by Georg Adolf Wilhelm von Helbig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dvort︠s︡ovye razri︠a︡dy, po vysochaĭshemu poveli︠e︡nīi︠u︡ izdannye II-m otdi︠e︡lenīem Sobstvennoĭ Ego Imperatorskago Velichestva kant︠s︡eli︠a︡rīi. (Sanktpeterburg, 1850) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires secrets sur la Russie, et particulièrement sur la fin du règne de Catherine II et le commencement de celui de Paul I. Formant un tableau des moeurs de St. Pétersbourg à la fin du XVIIIe siècle ... (C. Pougens, an VIII, 1800), by Charles François Philibert Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires secrets sur la Russie, et particulièrement sur la fin du règne de Catherine II, et sur celui de Paul I. (Chez Levrault, Schoell et comp., 1804), by Charles François Philibert Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Russian court in the eighteenth century (C. Scribner's sons., 1905), by J. Fitzgerald Molloy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of the revolutions of Russia, to the accession of Catharine the First; including a concise review of the manners and customs of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (T. N. Longmans and O. Rees, 1804), by H. Card (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memoirs of Catherine II and the historic court of St. Petersburg during her reign and that of Paul I. (L.C. Page and Company (incorporated), 1900) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The comedy of Catherine the Great (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1912), by Francis Henry Gribble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Celebrated crimes of the Russian court (L.C. Page & company, 1917), by Alexandre Dumas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les dernières années de la cour de Tzarskoïé-Sélo (Payot, 1928), by A. I. Spiridovich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Istoricheskīe ocherki i razskazy (Tip. A.S. Suvorina, 1903), by S. N. Shubinskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Major Massons Geheime Memoiren über Russland. (A. Langen, 1917), by Charles François Philibert Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imperatorskai︠a︡ glavnai︠a︡ kvartira; istoriīi︠a︡ gosudarevoĭ svity ... (Tipografīi︠a︡ N. P. Sobko, 1902), by V. V. Kvadri (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zapiski kni︠a︡gini E. Dashkovoĭ (s.n.], 1907), by E. R. Dashkova and K. A. Voenskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tekst sochinenii︠a︡ "O Rossii v t︠s︡arstvovanie Aleksi︠e︡i︠a︡ Mikhaĭlovicha", gl. I, II i XIII, s primi︠e︡chanii︠a︡mi, istorii︠a︡ pami︠a︡tnika, biografii︠a︡ avtora (I. Glazunova, 1913), by Grigoriĭ Kotoshikhin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Romanows; intime episoden aus ihrem familien undhofleben (S. Cronbach, 1906), by Bernhard Stern (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pupils of Peter the Great : a history of the Russian court and empire from 1697 to 1740 (New Amsterdam Book Co. ;, 1899), by R. Nisbet Bain (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Li︠u︡bovʹ velikikh kni︠a︡zeĭ. Perevod s ni︠e︡met︠s︡kago. Razri︠e︡shennyĭ izdatelʹstvom Markvardt i Ko., Berlin. (Izd. G. Shteĭnit︠s︡a, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rasputin, the holy devil (Putnam, 1928), by René Fülöp-Miller, D. F. Tait, and F. S. Flint (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rasputin, the holy devil (Garden City Publishing, 1939), by René Fülöp-Miller, D. F. Tait, and F. S. Flint (page images at HathiTrust)
• Generl-adʺ i͡utanty Imperatora Aleksandra I. (1913), by Grand Duke of Russia Nikolaĭ Nikhaĭlovich (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Secret memoirs of Catherine II and the court of St. Petersburg : during her reign and that of Paul I (Grolier Society, 1904), by Charles François Philibert Masson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der heilige teufel ; Rasputin und die frauen. (Berlin : P. Zsolnay, [1927], 1927), by René Fülöp-Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russia (the old regime) 1903-1919, "personal recollections" of Madame Olga de Smolianinoff. ([H.C. Brewer Check Co.], 1935), by Olga de Smolianinoff and Honora Bozka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Réminiscences d'une émigrée; avant-propos du comte Raymond de Vogüé. (Plon-Nourrít et cie, 1925), by Vi︠e︡ra Viktorovna Golitsyna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Sir Thomas Smithes voiage and entertainment in Rushia With the tragicall ends of two emperors, and one empresse, within one moneth during his being there: and the miraculous preseruation of the now raigning emperor, esteemed dead for 18. yeares. (Printed at London : [By W. White and W. Jaggard] for Nathanyell Butter, 1605), by Thomas Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Ivan de Biron; or, The Russian court in the middle of last century. (W. Isbister, 1874), by Arthur Helps (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mirrors of Moscow (New York: T. Seltzer, 1923), by Louise Bryant, illust. by Oscar Edward Cesare
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• Matériaux inédits pour la biographie ... (London [etc.], between 1000 and 1999) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liste alphabétique de portraits russes. (MM. Eggers & Co., 1875), by A. A. Vasilʹchikov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moskovskiĭ nekropolʹ. (Tip. M.M. Stasi︠u︡levicha, 1907), by Grand Duke of Russia Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich, B. L. Modzalevskiĭ, and Vladimīrʺ Saitovʺ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Biographic directory of the USSR (Scarecrow Press, 1958), by Institut zur Erforschung der UdSSR. and V. S. Mert︠s︡alov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pravitelʹstvui︠u︡shchiĭ senatʹ (Tipo-Litografii︠a︡ S.-Peterburgskoĭ Odinochnoĭ Ti︠u︡rʹmy, 1972), by M. L. Levenson (page images at HathiTrust)
• 3-ĭ sozyv Gosudarstvennoĭ Dumy : portrety, biografii, avtografy (Izd. N. N. Olʹshanskago, 1910), by N. N. Olʹshanskiĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russkii͡a zhenshchiny novago vremeni : biograficheskie ocherki iz russkoĭ istorii : zhenshchiny devi͡atnadt͡satago vi͡eka (A. Cherkesov, 1874), by D. L. Mordovt︠s︡ev (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pervoe ministerstvo svobodnoĭ Rossii. (#, 1917), by P. O. Filippov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some Russian heroes, saints and sinners, legendary and historical (Williams and Norgate, 1916), by Sonia Elizabeth Howe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Russische Köpfe (Ullstein, 1916), by Theodor Schiemann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Some Russian heroes, saints and sinners, legendary and historical (Williams and Norgate, 1916), by Sonia E. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sovremenniki; alʹbom bīografīĭ. ([S.-Peterburg], 1909), by N. I. Afanasʹev (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vospominanii͡a. Rasskazy. Zametki ("Kniga", 1925), by Maksim Gorky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selbstbiographien unbedeutender Leute. Skizzen aus dem russischen Volkleben und Porträts. (K. Siegismund, 1896), by Vasiliĭ Vasil'evich Vereshchagin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kurgany. ([Tip. T-va "Obshchestvennai͡a Pol'za", 1905), by Aleksandr Amfiteatrov (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Russkai︠a︡ istorīi︠a︡ v zhizmeopisanīi︠a︡kh ei︠a︡ glavneĭshikh dei︠a︡teleĭ. (Tip. M.M. Stasi︠u︡levicha, 1880), by N. I. Kostomarov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russische Günstlinge. (G. Mu̲ller, 1917), by Georg Adolf Wilhelm von Helbig (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sobranīe portretov rossīi︠a︡n, znamenitykh po svoim di︠e︡i︠a︡nīi︠a︡m, voinskim i grazhdanskim, po uchenosti, sochinenīi︠a︡m, darovanii︠a︡m, ili koikh imena po chemu drugomu sdi︠e︡lalisʹ izvi︠e︡stnymi svi︠e︡tu : v khronologicheskom pori︠a︡dki︠e︡, po godam konchiny, s prilozhenīem ikh kratkikh zhizneopisanīĭ (P. Beketov, 1821), by Platon Petrovich Beketov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russki e di e i a teli v portretakh. (Izd. redakt s i ei u istoricheskogo zhurnala Russkai a starina, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Who are they? : Prepared at the request of the Committee on Un-American Actvities. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off, 1957), by Library of Congress Legislative Reference Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russkīi͡a istoricheskīi͡a zhenshchiny : populi͡arnye razskazy iz russkoĭ istorīi : zhenshchiny do-petrovskoĭ Rusi (K.N. Plotnikov, 1974), by D. L. Mordovt͡sev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Russkīi͡a zhenshchiny novago vremeni : bīograficheskīe ocherki iz russkoĭ istorīi (A. Cherkesov, 1874), by D. L. Mordovt͡sev (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Siècle de Pierre-le-Grand, ou Actions et hauts faits des capitaines et des ministres qui se sont illustrés sous le règne de cet empereur. Ouvrage écrit d'après les actes et manuscrits des archives de Moscou. (Ponthieu, 1826), by D. N. Bantysh-Kamenskīĭ and Jean Wolff (page images at HathiTrust)
• La société russe (M. Dreyfous, 1877), by Julius Wilhelm Albert von Eckardt and Ernest Figurey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vospominanii︠a︡: N.E. Karonin-Petropavlovskiĭ, A.P. Chekhov, Lev Tolstoĭ, M.M. Kot︠s︡i︠u︡binskiĭ, Leonid Andreev ("Kniga", 1923), by Maksim Gorky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Almanakh sovremennykh russkikh gosudarstvennykh di︠e︡i︠a︡teleĭ. (I︠A︡d. G. A. Golʹdberga, 1897) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iz proshlago russkago obshchestva (Tipo-lit. Gerolʹd, 1904), by V. I︠A︡. Bogucharskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• aKanun osvobozhedenii︠a︡, 1855-1861 (Tip. M.M. Stasi︠u︡levicha, 1916), by N. A. Kotli︠a︡revskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Materīaly dli︠a︡ bīografīi Lomonosova ([s. n.], 1865), by Petr Spiridonovich Bili︠a︡rskiĭ and Mikhaĭl Vasilʹevich Lomonosov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russkai︠a︡ istorīi︠a︡ v zhizneopisanīi︠a︡kh ei︠a︡ glavni︠e︡ĭshikh di︠e︡i︠a︡teleĭ. (Stasi︠u︡levichi︠a︡, 1896), by N. I. Kostomarov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russkai a istori i a v zhizneopisani i a kh ei a glavni e i shikh di e i atelei ([s.n.], 1873), by N. I. Kostomarov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sovremenniki; alʹbom biografii. ([S.-Peterburg], 1909), by N. Afanasʹev (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kniga russkoĭ skorbi. (Tip. "Rossii︠a︡", in the 1900s), by Russkīĭ narodnyĭ soi︠u︡z imeni Mikhaila Arkhangela (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iz zhizni russkikh di︠e︡i︠a︡teleĭ XVIII vi︠e︡ka (Tip. Imp. Universiteta, 1891), by D. A. Korsakov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kanun osvobozhdenīi︠a︡, 1855-1861; iz zhizni ideĭ i nastroenīĭ v radikalʹnykh krugakh togo vremeni. (Tip. M.M. Stasi︠u︡levicha, 1916), by N. A. Kotli︠a︡revskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gosudarstvennai︠a︡ kant︠s︡eli︠a︡rii︠a︡ 1810-1910 : Sostavleno v Gosudarstvennoĭ kant︠s︡eli︠a︡rii. ([Gosudarstvennai︠a︡ tipografii︠a︡], 1910), by Russia. Gosudarstvennai͡a kant͡seli͡arīi͡a (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gosudarstvennai︠a︡ duma pervago prizyva. Portrety, kratkīi︠a︡ bīografīi i kharakteristiki deputatov. ("Vozrozhdenīe,", 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peterburgskiĭ nekropolʹ. (Tip. M.M. Stasi︠u︡levicha, 1912), by Grand Duke of Russia Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich and Vladimīr Saitov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russische Geschichte in Biographien (G. Levien, 1889), by N. I. Kostomarov and Wilhelm Henckel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russkiĭ provint︠s︡ialʹnyĭ nekropolʹ. T. 1-ĭ. (Tipo-lit. t-va I.N. Kushnerev, 1914), by Grand Duke of Russia Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich and V. Sheremetevskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Iz zhizni russkikh di︠e︡i︠a︡teleĭ XVIII vi︠e︡ka. (Tip. I. Universiteta, 1891), by D. A. Korsakov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vechnai︠a︡ pami︠a︡tʹ. (Sinodalʹnai︠a︡ tip., 1896), by Konstantin Petrovich Pobedonost︠s︡ev (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russkiĭ nekropolʹ v chuzhikh krai︠a︡kh. Vyp. 1-ĭ: Parizh i ego okrestnosti. (Tip. M.M. Stasi︠u︡levicha, 1915), by Grand Duke of Russia Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich and Vladimīr Anderson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stoli︠e︡tīe Rossīi, s 1745 do 1845 goda, ili istoricheskai︠a︡ kartina dostopami︠a︡tnykh sobytīĭ v Rossīi za sto li︠e︡t : Senti︠a︡bri︠a︡ 5-go 1845 goda, v denʹ stoli︠e︡tni︠a︡go i︠u︡bilei︠a︡, sovershivshagosi︠a︡ so dni︠a︡ rozhdenīi︠a︡ kni︠a︡zi︠a︡ Golenishcheva-Kutuzova-Smolenskago (P.I. Martynov, 1845), by Nikolaĭ Alekseevich Polevoĭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liste alphabétique de portraits russes. (Commissionnaires de l'Academie Impériale des Sciences, 1875), by Aleksandr Aleksi︠e︡evīch Vasīlʹchīkov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Russkīe byvshīe di͡ei͡ateli : sbornik portretov zami͡echatelʹnykh lit͡s proshlago vremeni s kratkimi bīograficheskimi ocherkami (Izd. A.O. Baumana, 1877), by P. N. Petrov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alʹbom bort͡sov za svobodu. Chastʹ I. 154 otdi͡elʹnykh portreta, 37 grupp i vidov s bīografīi͡ami i zami͡etkami k nim. (Voli, 1907), by B. D. Orjikh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Profils russes. Une princesse russe à Rome - La comtesse Roumiantzeff - Un évêque russe - Marfa Possadnitza. (Perrin et cie, 1913), by Hermione Poltoratskai︠a︡ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pervoe ministerstvo svobodnoĭ Rossīi: portrety i bīografīi chlenov Vremennago Pravitelʹstva (Izd. D. I︠A︡. Makovskago, 1975), by P. O. Filippov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Azbuchnyĭ ukazatelʹ imen russkikh di︠e︡i︠a︡teleĭ dli︠a︡ russkago bīograficheskago slovari︠a︡. ([Tipografīi︠a︡ Imperatorskoĭ akademīi naukʺ], 1887), by Russkoe istoricheskoe obshchestvo and Georgiĭ Fedorovich Stendman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Materialy dlia bibliograficheskago slovaria dieĭstvitelʹnykh clenov Imperatorskoĭ Akademii Nauk. (Petrograd, 1915), by Akademii︠a︡ nauk SSSR. (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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