This book is a collection of stories about great orthodox saints, martyrs, and accomplishers of feats of arms and spiritual endeavors. This book is a source of inspiration and admiration of buoyancy, heroism, valor and self sacrifices of the orthodox warriors. Alexander Nevsky, George the Victorious, Michael of Chernigov, Michael of Tver – the reader is familiar with all of these names, but the pages reveal their images completely, providing descriptions of their lives and beliefs, feats and testaments. This edition lifts the veil over the secrets of the past, impersonating morality in our brave ancestors.

This book in a luxurious leather cover will become a gem of any library.

A mysterious, mystical, written with the author’s distinctive humour, the parody-Gothic novel The Devil’s Elixirs written ca. 1815-1816, is a literary masterpiece of Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 – 1822). There is a deep insight into the human subconscious hidden in its plot. With this book, Hoffmann introduced the topic of dualism in the world literature and laid the foundation for the Renaissance mythology. The novel had influenced the work of Stendhal, Balzac, Dostoevsky, Merezhkovsky, Freud and many other great writers. The book will give great pleasure to a thoughtful reader who appreciates works in the spirit of romanticism.

In 1913, Iosif Pokrovsky (1868 – 1920), a Russian legal expert, doctor of Roman law, created one of the best jurisprudential textbook in Russian. His scientific work is notable for the breadth of subject and survey, description of the trends in legal and national development, as well as the story of the Roman law destiny after the fall of the ancient world and the pursuit of its continuation in the modern world. Undoubtedly, the Roman law has a special place in the world history. Once consistent, it managed to stand in service of legal systems of most of today’s states.

This collectors’ edition will be appreciated not only by a lawyer, but by any well educated person.

“It is time that the national idea started to pursuit economics beyond Russia and foul the native ground with invasive replanting; it is high time that we came back home and came to know all the power of our people, in the absence of true connection with which economic arrangements will never become coordinated with the needs of our people,” the author writes. A brilliant businessman and patron of 60 to 70s of the 19^th century, Vasily Kokorev (1817 – 1889) always surprised his contemporaries with his original mind and large-scale schemes. His most important work concludes his reasoning about traditionalism, the national spirit, patriotism, and the appeal for abandoning bureaucracy and copying of the West and turning to the pursuit of our own economic basics.

The master of a magical and satirical fairy tale of the 18th century, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 – 1822) was the author of many outstanding literary works, and The Royal Bride is one of the most characteristic of them. The mystical plot is ironic and intricate, but behind it lies a meamingful moral: it does not matter which horse the prince mounts. What matters is who rides the horse. It may be that the real prince will appear in the image of a gnome. And therefore one should not strive for easy money: the intricacies of fate are much more complex than we think. A beautiful piece in a beautiful mounting of the gift edition will delight any collector.

The famous Roman Stoic philosopher, poet and statesman, educator of Nero himself, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) remains today one of the most widely read authors. His moral philosophy has not lost its relevance and remains in demand in the modern world against the background of religious decline and shaky moral foundations. The heart of his philosophy is the ethics, to which all phenomena are subject. Seneca teaches the reader how to live with dignity if one has nothing to believe in and no one to rely on. His works are not just the science of endurance in the face of pain, but also a spiritual therapy. Seneca has a wide audience of admirers, and a deluxe edition in a luxurious leather binding is a universal gift for a thoughtful reader.

One of the best editions on the history of the construction of St. Petersburg that contains a story about how Peter the Great built the city. How he dreamed of living in a city surrounded by water, how, during the preparation for the Northern War, he found in old Swedish maps a winding Neva delta, as he was looking for the best architects. The book by Felix Lurie contains reproductions of works by Russian and Western masters of the 18th and 19th centuries, depicting the new capital. The illustrations are given according to the topographical principle and are accompanied by information about the buildings that stood earlier and were planned to be buit in future.

Édouard Schuré (1841 – 1929), a French writer, philosopher, and music expert, author of novels, plays, as well as historic, poetic, and philosophic works, created his major work “The Great Initiates” to share his thoughts on the possibility and need of reconciliation between science and religion as related to esotery. In his work, he considers the matters of conflicts between religion and science, aberrant concepts of truth and progress, unity of the theory of mysteries and unconscious progression of science toward theosophy. Schuré described the way that ancient philosophers and old masters have followed in pursuit of truth: Ramah, Krishna, Hermes, Moses, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and even Jesus Christ.

This work is dedicated to the author’s lady friend Margaret Albana Mignaty.