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Russian porcelain in the Hermitage Collection / [introduced and compiled by L. Nikiforova ; photos. by V. Priymenko].
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- Leningrad : Aurora, c1973.
- 1973
- 2 Items
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Sovetskiĭ farfor : iskusstvo Leningr. gos. farforovogo z-da im. M. V. Lomonosova : zal-bom / sost. : avt. teksta A. K. Lansere]
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- Leningrad : Khudozhnik R S F S R, 1974.
- 1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 77-649 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russka︠i︡a keramika i steklo 18-19 vekov : Sobr. Gos. ist. muze︠i︡a : [Alʹbom] / T. I. Dulʹkina, N. A. Asharina.
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- Moskva : Izobraz. iskusstvo, 1978.
- 1978
- 1 Item
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Venäläistä posliinia : Vera Saarelan kokoelma, Suomen kansallismuseo / Heikki Hyvönen = Russian porcelain : Collection Vera Saarela, the National Museum of Finland / Heikki Hyvönen ; [translated by Päivikki Ojansuu].
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- Helsinki : Vera Saarelan säätio, [1982]
- 1982
- 1 Item
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Russkiĭ farfor = Russian porcelain : Chastnye zavody : [Alʹbom] / V. A. Popov.
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- Leningrad : Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
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Gzhelʹ i gzhelʹ︠t︡sy : na rodine russkogo farfora / S.V. Gamelkin, M.G. Kapitan.
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- Moskva : Moskovskiĭ rabochiĭ, 1969.
- 1969
- 1 Item
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Sozdatelʹ russkogo farfora : zhiznʹ i de︠i︡atelʹnostʹ D.I. Vinogradova / L.R. Nikiforova.
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- Leningrad : Izd-vo gosudarstvennogo Ėrmitazha, 1962.
- 1962
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JAX S-764 Offsite Russisches und sowjetisches Porzellan im Umbruch 1895-1935, aus Leningrader Museen und Schloss Peterhof, dem Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln und dem Badischen Landesmuseum Karlsruhe : mit einem Überblick über die heutige Produktion der Leningrader Lomonossow Porzellanmanufaktur / herausgegeben von Irmela Franzke.
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- [Karlsruhe] : Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe ; [Heidelberg] : Edition Braus, c1991.
- 1991
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Russkiĭ farfor= Russian porcelain : Chastnye zavody : [Alʹbom] / V.A. Popov.
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- Leningrad : Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1980.
- 1980
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 84-2761 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Revolution, life and labor : Soviet porcelains (1918-1985) / Deborah Sampson Shinn.
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- New York, N.Y. : Cooper-Hewitt, National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution, in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle, c1992.
- 1992
- 2 Items
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Le Porcellane imperiali russe dal 1744 al 1917 : Peterhof, San Pietroburgo.
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- Faenza : Gruppo editoriale Faenza editrice, c1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
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Gzhel : ceramics, 18th-19th centuries : ceramics, 20th century / [avtory teksta i nauchnye konsulʹtanty T.I. Dulʹkina, N.S. Grigorʹeva, T.L. Astrakhan︠t︡seva ; sostavitelʹ V.M. Loginov ; perevodchik A.G. Shkarovskiĭ-Raffe].
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- Moscow : Planeta Publishers, 1989.
- 1989
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 94-371 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
La table des tsars : porcelaines du Palais de Pavlovsk à Saint-Pétersbourg : Musées de Montbéliard, Château des ducs de Wurtemberg, 1 juin-28 août 1994.
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- [Montbéliard : Les Musées, 1994]
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-MPG+ 94-11834 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Marki farfora, fa︠i︡ansa i maĭoliki, russki︠i︡a i inostranny︠i︡a : posobie dl︠i︡a l︠i︡ubiteleĭ i kollek︠t︡sionerov.
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- [Moskva] : "Raritet", Tip. im. Iv. Fedorova, [1991?]
- 1991-1919
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *R-Slav. Div. 94-353 Offsite La rivoluzione in salotto : porcellane sovietiche, 1917-1930 / [catalogo a cura di Fabio Ciofi degli Atti ... [et al]].
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- Milano : Electa, c1988.
- 1988
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-MPG 94-12937 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Marki rossiĭskogo farfora, 1744-1917 / sostavitelʹ Musina R.R.
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- Moskva : Izd-vo "Znanie", 1995.
- 1995
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 96-7449 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 96-5720 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sovet farfory = Sovetskiĭ farfor = The Soviet porcelain / [tezuche L.E. Pokhvalinska︠i︡a].
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- Kazanʹ : Izd-vo Zaman, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 96-8148 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russkiĭ farfor : 250 let istorii : katalog / [avtor-sostavitelʹ, nauchnyĭ redaktor: L.V. Andreeva].
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- Moskva : Avangard, 1995-
- 1995-present
- 1 Item
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Russkiĭ farfor / sostavlenie i tekst Galina Dmitrievna Agarkova, Tatʹ︠i︡ana Leonidovna Astrakhan︠t︡seva, Natalʹ︠i︡a Sergeevna Petrova.
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- Moskva : "Planeta", 1993.
- 1993
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 97-7077 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
L'exposition de porcelaine : guide / Musée russe de l'etat, [B. Emmé, Egorova-Kotlubaï ; traduction de O. Reidner].
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- Leningrad : [Le Musée?], 1937.
- 1937
- 1 Item
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Russian porcelains; the Gardner, Iusupov, Batenin ... factories, by Marvin C. Ross. With a foreword by Marjorie Merriweather Post.
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- Norman, University of Oklahoma Press [1968]
- 1968
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MPG (Post, M. M. Russian porcelains) Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Les marques de la porcelaine russe, période impériale.
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- Paris, Librairie ancienne H. Champion, 1926.
- 1926
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MPK (Rozembergh, A. Marques de la porcelaine russe, periode imperiale) Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sovetskiĭ farfor, 1920-1930 gg. / L. Andreeva; In-t istorii iskusstv.
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- Moskva : Sov. xudo̊znik, 1975.
- 1975
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 77-4196 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russka︠i︡a keramika i steklo 18-19 vekov : Sobr. Gos ist. muze︠i︡a : [Alwbom] / T. I. Dulwkina, N. A. Åsarina.
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- Moskva : Izobraz. iskusstvo, 1978.
- 1978
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 79-5102 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Katalog farforovyx i fa︠i︡ansovyx izdeliĭ.
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- Moskva, Rosgizmestprom, 1951-
- 1951-present
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Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QCA+++ 77-1305 no. 1 (1951) Offsite 250 years of Lomonosov porcelain manufacture St. Petersburg : 1744-1994 / Galina Agarkova, Nataliya Petrova.
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- Desertina, Switzerland : Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture, 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 99-1500 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russkiĭ farfor pushkinskoĭ ėpokhi : iz sobrani︠i︡a Gosudarstvennogo istoricheskogo muze︠i︡a / [avtor teksta M.A. Bubchikova].
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- Moskva : Galart, 1997.
- 1997
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 99-380 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Khudozhestvennyĭ farfor : katalog / [otvetstvennyĭ redaktor I.T. Rodin].
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- Leningrad : [s.n.], 1938.
- 1938
- 2 Items
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text MPG+ (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, Leningrad. URSS, la porcelaine d'arts) Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Gosudarstvennyi farforovyi zavod, Leningrad. Khudozhestvennyi) Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Pâques impériales : les œufs en porcelaine de l'Ermitage de Saint-Pétersbourg : Musée Ariana, Genève, 18 septembre 1996-13 janvier 1997 = Imperial Easter : porcelain eggs from the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg : Ariana Museum, Geneva, 18 September 1996-13 January 1997.
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- Genève : Département des affaires culturelles, Musées d'art et d'histoire : Fondation pour l'initiative culturelle russe, c1996.
- 1996
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 99-6278 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Dalʹnevostochnyĭ farfor v Rossii : XVIII-nachalo XX veka : katalog vystavki / T.B. Arapova, T.V. Kudr︠i︡av︠t︡seva.
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- Sankt-Peterburg : AO "Slavi︠i︡a-Interbuk", 1994.
- 1994
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 99-7396 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russian imperial porcelain at Hillwood / Anne Odom.
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- Washington, D.C. : Hillwood Museum and Gardens, 1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-MPG 00-7715 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Das weisse Gold der Zaren : Porzellan der Kaiserlichen Porzellanmanufaktur Sankt Petersburg aus den Beständen der Staatlichen Ermitage Sankt Petersburg / Tamara Kudrjawzewa ; [Herausgeber, Verein Schlossmuseum Darmstadt ; Übersetzung, Irmtraut Gengenbach].
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- Stuttgart : Arnoldsche, c2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text 3-MPG 00-13590 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russian Imperial porcelain Easter eggs = Russkie imperatorskie farforovye paskhalʹnye ︠i︡aĭ︠t︡sa / Tamara Kudriavtseva, Harold Whitbeck.
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- London : Merrell, 2001.
- 2001
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JQG 01-124 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Zhak-Dominik Rashett, 1744-1809 / [avtory stateĭ, Elena Karpova, Bent Sërensen ; sostaviteli kataloga, Elena Karpova, Tamara Nosovich, Irina Popova].
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- [Saint Petersburg] : Gos. russkiĭ muzeĭ : Palace Editions, c1999.
- 1999
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 02-451 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russka︠i︡a keramika : kone︠t︡s XIX-nachalo XX v. / K. N. Pruslina.
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- Moskva : Izd-vo "Nauka", 1974.
- 1974
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JAY S-3706 Offsite Porcelain in Russia 18th-19th centuries : the Gardner Factory : in celebration of the tercentenary of St Petersburg / [editor in chief, Yevgenia Petrova].
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- St. Petersburg : Palace Editions, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text JQF 04-862 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russkiĭ khudozhestvennyĭ farfor : sbornik stateĭ o Gosudarstvennom farforovom zavode / pod red. Ė.F. Gollerbakha i M.V. Farmakovskogo.
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- Leningrad : Gosudarstvennoe izd-vo, 1924.
- 1924
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ (Gollerbakh. Russkii...) Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sovetskiĭ farfor, 1940-1970 : gid dl︠i︡a nachina︠i︡ushchego kollek︠t︡sionera = Soviet porcelain : guide for beginning collector / [sostavitelʹ S.N. Beloglazov].
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- Sankt-Peterburg : "Art-SPb", 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 04-5208 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Farfor v Rossii XVIII-XIX vekov : zavod Gardnera / [avtor statʹi i sostavitelʹ kataloga Elena Ivanova].
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- Sankt-Peterburg : Palace Editions, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 04-7047 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Russkiĭ imperatorskiĭ farfor / T.V. Kudr︠i︡av︠t︡seva.
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- Sankt-Peterburg : Slavi︠i︡a, 2003.
- 2003
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 04-7046 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Podnesenie k Rozhdestvu / [obshcha︠i︡a redak︠t︡si︠i︡a i predislovie M.B. Piotrovskogo ; avtor kon︠t︡sesp︠t︡sii i vstupitelʹnoĭ statʹi, T.V. Kudr︠i︡av︠t︡seva].
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- Sankt-Peterburg : Gos. Ėrmitazh : Propilei, 2002.
- 2002
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 04-7795 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Farforovyĭ gorodok.
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- [Moskva] : Moskovskii rabochiĭ, 1957.
- 1957
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QH (Arbat, IU.) Offsite Gzhelʹskie istorii v zapiskakh kollek︠t︡sionera : nachala / Flaviĭ Khoroshilov.
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- [Moscow] : Repro︠t︡sentr M, 2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 05-620 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Farfor verbilok; iz istoriĭ russkogo i sovetskogo farfora.
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- [Moskva : izobraz. iskusstvo, 1970]
- 1970
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ (Chernyi, N. Farfor) Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Farforovykh del mastera / ︠I︡Uriĭ Arbat.
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- [Moskva] : Izd-vo V︠T︡SSPS Profizdat, 1955.
- 1955
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 05-3051 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
︠I︡Antarʹ na trubkakh ︠T︡Saregrada, farfor i bronza na stole-- : kollek︠t︡si︠i︡a dekorativno-prikladnogo iskusstva Gosudarstvennogo muze︠i︡a A.S. Pushkina / [rukovoditelʹ proekta E.A. Bogatyrev ; nauchnyĭ redaktor N.I. Mikhaĭlova].
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- Moskva : Gos. muzeĭ A.S. Pushkina : AO "Moskovskie uchebniki", 2004.
- 2004
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 06-1279 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Gosudarstvennyĭ farforovyĭ zavod : 1904-1944 / T.N. Nosovich, I.P. Popova ; pod nauchnoĭ redak︠t︡sieĭ V.V. Znamenova.
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- Sankt-Peterburg ; Moskva : Izd-vo "Sankt-Peterburg Orkestr", 2005.
- 2005
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ+ 06-2108 Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sovetskiĭ farfor : statʹi / A.V. Lunacharskogo ... [et al.] ; khudozh. redak︠t︡si︠i︡a S.A. Abramova.
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- Moskva : Moskovskoe khudozh. izd-vo, 1927.
- 1927
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *Q p.v. 700 no. 1-7 Offsite Russkiĭ farfor v sobranii Gatchinskogo dvor︠t︡sa / [avtor R. I. Samsonova].
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- Sankt Peterburg : Gos. muzeĭ-zapovednik "Gatchina,", 2000.
- 2000
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 06-7948 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
Sovetskiĭ farfor 1920-1930-kh godov v chastnykh sobrani︠i︡akh Sankt-Peterburga : katalog / Ėlʹvira Same︠t︡ska︠i︡a.
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- [Russia? : s.n., 200-?]
- 2000-2007
- 1 Item
Item details Format Call Number Item Location Text *QDZ 07-231 Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.
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