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Title: Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
Author: Various
Editor: Esther Singleton
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[Illustration: MOSCOW.]

RUSSIA

As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
Edited and Translated by
ESTHER SINGLETON
Author of "Turrets, Towers and Temples," "Great Pictures," and "A
Guide to the Opera," and translator of "The Music Dramas of Richard
Wagner."
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS
New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1909

PREFACE
This is intended to be a companion volume to Japan, and therefore
follows the same general plan and arrangement. It aims to present in
small compass a somewhat comprehensive view of the great Muscovite
power. After a short description of the country and race, we pass to a
brief review of the history and religion including ritual and ceremonial
observances of the Greek Church. Next come descriptions of regions,
cities and architectural marvels; and then follow articles on the various
manners and customs of rural and town life. The arts of the nation are
treated comprehensively; and a chapter of the latest statistics concludes
the rapid survey. The material is all selected from the writings of those
who speak with authority on the subjects with which they deal.
The Russian Empire is so vast that it would be impossible to give
detailed descriptions of all its parts in a work of this size: therefore I
have been forced to be content with more general descriptions of
provinces with an occasional addition of a typical city.

E. S.
New York, April 21, 1904.

CONTENTS

PART I
THE COUNTRY AND RACE
The Russian Empire Prince Kropotkine.
Siberia Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus.
The Russian Races W. R. Morfill.

PART II
HISTORY AND RELIGION
The History of Russia W. R. Morfill.
Church Service Alfred Maskell.
The Creeds of Russia Ernest W. Lowry.

PART III
DESCRIPTIONS

St. Petersburg J. Beavington Atkinson.
Finland Harry De Windt.
Lapland Alexander Platonovich Engelhardt.
Moscow (The Kremlin and its treasuries--The Ancient Regalia--The
Romanoff House) Alfred Maskell.
Vassili-Blagennoi (St. Basil the Blessed) Théophile Gautier.
Poland Thomas Michell.
Kief, the City of Pilgrimage J. Beavington Atkinson.
Nijni-Novgorod Antonio Gallenga.
The Volga Basin. (The Great River--Kasan--Tsaritzin--Astrakhan)
Antonio Gallenga.
Odessa Antonio Gallenga.
The Don Cossacks Thomas Michell.
In the Caucasus J. Buchan Teller.
Khiva Fred Burnaby.
The Trans-Siberian Railway William Durban.

PART IV
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
High Life in Russia The Countess of Galloway.
Rural Life in Russia Lady Verney

Food and Drink H. Sutherland Edwards.
Carnival-Time and Easter A. Nicol Simpson.
Russian Tea and Tea-Houses H. Sutherland Edwards.
How Russia Amuses Itself Fred Whishaw.
The Kirghiz and their Horses Fred Burnaby.
Winter in Moscow H. Sutherland Edwards.
A Journey by Sleigh Fred Burnaby.

PART V
ART AND LITERATURE
Russian Architecture Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.
Sculpture and Painting Philippe Berthelot.
Russian Music A. E. Keeton.
Russian Literature W. R. Morfill.

PART VI
STATISTICS
Present Conditions E. S.

ILLUSTRATIONS

MOSCOW ARCHANGEL REVEL SIBERIAN NATIVES
SAMOJEDES OF NOVA ZEMBLA ROOM OF THE TSAR
MICHAILOWITCH, MOSCOW CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION
A RELIGIOUS PROCESSION, KOLA SHRINE IN THE CONVENT
SOLOVETSKII, KOLA ST. PETERSBURG THE HERMITAGE, ST.
PETERSBURG HELSINGFORS, FINLAND REINDEER
TRAVELLING MOSCOW THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW
VASSILI--BLAGENNOI (ST. BASIL THE BLESSED), MOSCOW
NOWO ZJAZD STREET, WARSAW HOTEL DEVILLE, WARSAW
THE DNIEPER AT KIEF LA LAVRA, KIEF NIJNI--NOVGOROD
(BRIDGE OF THE FAIR) FROM THE RAMPARTS OF THE
KREMLIN, NIJNI--NOVGOROD PLACE TUREMNAJA, ODESSA
SEBASTOPOL KHARKOFF TIFLIS THE WINTER PALACE, ST.
PETERSBURG RUSSIAN FARM SCENE THE TSAR'S
DINING-ROOM, MOSCOW ST. ISAAC'S CATHEDRAL, ST.
PETERSBURG ST. ANNE RESTAURANT, WIBORG THE RED
SQUARE, MOSCOW CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER, MOSCOW
STATUE OF PETER THE GREAT AND THE ADMIRALTY
PALACE, ST. PETERSBURG THE THEATRE, ODESSA THE
LIBRARY, ODESSA THE TSAR NICHOLAS THE TSARINA
KALKSTRASSE AND PROMENADE, RIGA

THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE
PRINCE KROPOTKINE
The Russian Empire is a very extensive territory in eastern Europe and
northern Asia, with an area exceeding 8,500,000 square miles, or
one-sixth of the land surface of the globe (one twenty-third of its whole
superficies). It is, however, but thinly peopled on the average, including
only one-fourteenth of the inhabitants of the earth. It is almost entirely
confined to the cold and temperate zones. In Nova Zembla (Novaya
Zemlya) and the Taimir peninsula, it projects within the Arctic Circle
as far as 77° 2' and 77° 40' N. latitude; while its southern extremities
reach 38° 50' in Armenia, about