Russia (1905) (14776998742) - Public domain book illustration

Identifier: russiawall00wall (find matches)
Title: Russia
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Wallace, Donald Mackenzie, 1841-1919
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Publisher: New York : H. Holt and Co.
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library



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\V:i )ori-; Henry Jlo/t and Ccmpanv RUSSIA CHAPTEE I TRAVELLING IN RUSSIA Railways—State Interference—River Communications—Russian GrandTour —The Volga—Kazan—Zhigulinskiya Gori—Finns and Tar-tars—The Don—Difficulties of Navigation—Discomforts—Rats—Hotels and Their Peculiar Customs—Roads—Hibernian Phraseol-ogy Explained—Bridges—Posting—A Tarantass—Requisites forTravelling—Travelling in Winter—Frostbitten—Disagreeable Epi-sodes—Scene at a Post-Station. OF course travelling in Eussia is no longer what it was. Duringthe last half century a vast network of railways has been con-structed, and one can now travel in a comfortable first-class car-riage from Berlin to St. Petersburg or Moscow, and thence toOdessa, Sebastopol, the Lower Volga, the Caucasus, Central Asia,or Eastern Siberia. Until the outbreak of the war there was atrain twice a week, with through carriages, from Moscow to PortArthur. And it must be admitted that on the main lines the pa