#Eastern Europe books

[vintage-russia]

"The Russian Story Book" illustrated by Frank C.Papé (1916)

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

2010 Ukrainian stamps with children's book themes.

[luchia-a]

Haven’t posted in awhile

It’s already fall 🍂🍁🎃

[canisalbus]

Gawd i love your art so much it reminds of my fairytale books and it inspires me so much-

Ah, I love those! I've been collecting vintage and antique children's books for over ten years already, mostly fables and other animal themed stories. The illustrations in them are some of my biggest inspirations.

[unhonestlymirror]

Guys, who's gonna tell her?

Molotov-Ribbentrop pact who?👀

[rotzaprachim]

to an extent I feel really uncharitable about European and/or western authors but also authors in general refusing to translate their works into Hebrew because the thing is that there once were a bunch of publishing houses and presses that published books in Hebrew, alongside other Jewish languages and Jewish books in shared languages, outside of ha medinas and those were all destroyed along with the rest of Jewish culture in many of these places without new presses being built and established in these areas. If you refuse to translate a book to Hebrew due to the politics of hamedinas it’s incumbent on authors to provide an alternative way for their books to be published in Hebrew or for presses to be built outside of that context.

[thatpoorfraulein]

I fucking HATE communism if you are a commie GO AWAY

/very VERY srs

[quotesfrommyreading]

The East is also where the Nazis had most vigorously pursued the Holocaust, where they set up the vast majority of ghettoes, concentration camps, and killing fields. Snyder notes that Jews accounted for less than 1 percent of the German population when Hitler came to power in 1933, and many of those managed to flee. Hitler's vision of a “Jew-free” Europe could only be realized when the Wehrmacht invaded Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belarus, Ukraine, and the Baltic States, and eventually Hungary and the Balkans which is where most of the Jews of Europe actually lived. Of the 5.4 million Jews who died in the Holocaust, the vast majority were from Eastern Europe. Most of the rest were taken to the region to be murdered. The scorn the Nazis held for all Eastern Europeans was closely related to their decision to take the Jews from all over Europe to the East for execution. There, in a land of subhumans, it was possible to do inhuman things.

  —  Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956 (Anne Applebaum)

[vintage-russia]

From "Russian Beadwork.The Russian Museum" (1975)

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

Rakhiv, Zakarpattia region, Ukraine.

[atopvisenyashill]

i know i’m always bitching about gaps in the collection at my job and my weird patrons but LISTEN my six the musical readalikes is doing surprisingly well (i shouldn't be surprised, library patrons in general love historical fiction especially bad historical fiction lmao) so i was looking to refill it and i wanted some more ~diverse titles and we have one (1) book about black royals in fiction and as far as i can tell like....absolutely fuck all on asian royals? which reminded me about how grrm has bitched at several points about how there's not a lot of good historical fiction on moorish spain or the maghreb in medieval era, and that's what he likes to read above all else - not a historical tome but history as a story, history written from the point of view of someone interesting.

this post has no point beyond me and george both agreeing there is a HEINOUS, near CRIMINAL lack of popular historical fiction about anywhere outside of europe. someone get on this so that old man can get more excited about world building in dorne pls!!!!

[karolinastast]

Masopusť!

slavic tradition of dressing up, feasting and dancing. Hand stitched, embroidered and printed on a risograph.

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[pamietniko]

Shakespeare a Synové

Prague, Czechia

[scarlet-came-back-wrong]

Some notes on The Tale of the Vampire Bride by Rhiannon Frater:

What strikes me the most about the book is the mix of a rather immature writing manner more suitable for a teenage fanfic or YA book and really harrowing material. With some Dracula fanfiction, especially of the recent years, I can "proudly" say that I read worse, but it's still one of the darkest takes on Dracula that I read in a book, while the main character is at times too much of a foot-stomping spunky OC with too modern-sounding feminist inclinations. It really doesn't get well, but it does make the book memorable in its own way

That said, I think the protagonist is rather entertaining. It helps that the author and even the character herself sometimes seem to understand that she's flawed rather than present her as an ideal

It's one of the most developed Draculas, which admittedly doesn't say much, since the bar for it is surprisingly low in the Dracula media. Still, I think he comes off a bit flat in comparison with what the author tried to achieve. He's also a redhead, which is really distracting, and the author doesn't even let us to forget it

There is quite a lot of Brides, especially at the beginning, and there is some fascinating stuff about their interactions, but unfortunately they mostly have one personality trait each. I feel like much more could have been done with them. On the other hand, we also have the Countess Dolingen here! And one of the sequels focuses on her! I love when authors remember Dolingen

Vampire powers are mostly accurate to the OG book, though they burn on the sun (or at least younger ones do?)

The dialogue is truly one of the weakest points. It's repetitive, it's too modern, it's often boring to read

We have, as usual, epistolary form here, and I'm really not sure that we need it

The cultural and historical stuff is passable. The author at least knows that Romanians are not Catholic, which is already above what I see too often. There is some exploration of relationship between vampires and people living around them, though they can appear stupid in some scenes

Van Helsing may be here too? Or perhaps it's his father or something. If it's him, it would be way too early, since the novel is set in the 1810s

Despite its faults, it is one of the most engaging Dracula books, and I'm really enjoying it so far.

[annasellheim]

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