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The Boy Travellers in The Russian Empire

ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Winter Scene in Russia

Fred's Reminder

St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna

View of the Palace of Cracow

Kosciusko, 1777

Kosciusko, 1817

Church of St Mary, Cracow

Polish Jew of high Rank

Polish Jews of the Middle Class

Our Guide in Costume

The Inspector-general

The Shaft

Descending the Shaft

Lamp-bearers

A Foot-path

An Underground Chapel

Men Cutting Salt in the Mine

Finishing the Columns

Subterranean Stables

A Mining Singer

"Glück-auf!"

Fête in the Grand Saloon of Entertainment

A Retired Director

Outer Wall of Cracow

Custom-house Formalities

Passport not Correct

In the Passport Bureau

Way Station on the Railway

Before Examination

After Examination

Scene on the Railway

Shutes for loading Coal on the Railway

Polish National Costumes

Peasant's Farm-house

Royal Palace at Warsaw

Shrine at a Gate-way

Lake in the Park

A Business Man of Warsaw

In St. Petersburg

Isvoshchiks in Winter

Drosky Drivers

Sledge of a high Official

Russian Workmen on their way Home

Russian Officer with Decorations

A Russian Priest

Convent of Solovetsk in the Frozen Sea

The Inundation of 1824

Statue of Peter the Great

Improvising a Statue

Tea-sellers in the Streets

Russian Restaurant at the Paris Exposition

An Out-door Tea-party

Russian Mujiks drinking Tea

Plant from which Yellow Tea is made

Column in Memory of Alexander I.

Peter the Great

Assassination of Peter III.

Paul I.

Russian and Finn

Dvornik and Postman

Lodgings at the Frontier

Ordered to leave Russia

Finland Peasants in Holiday Costume

Inhabitants of Southern Russia

St. Isaac's Church and Admiralty Square

Priest of the Church of St. Isaac

Catherine II. of Russia

Reception of John Paul Jones by the Empress Catherine

Russian Attack on the Turkish Galley

The Orloff Diamond

Nicholas I.

Peter III.

Circassian Arms as Trophies of Battle

Statue of Nicholas I.

Politeness in the Market-place

Importuning a Visitor

Frozen Animals in the Market

Market for old Clothes

Pigeons in a Russian City

Persian Horses presented by the Shah

Russian Peasant Girl

Russian Nurse-maid and Children

Some of Kriloff's Friends

Kriloff's Characters in Convention

The Fox as a Law-giver

One of Kriloff's Characters

Closing Scene in a Russian Play

Kriloff's Statue in the Summer Garden, St. Petersburg

Press-room of a Daily Newspaper

Interviewing an Editor

Prince Gortchakoff

Cabinet and Chair in the Palace

Illumination in a Russian Park

Tapestry and Fire Utensils at Peterhof

Door-way of Peter's House at Zaandam, Holland

A Student of Navigation

Steam Frigate near Cronstadt

Frigate under Sail and Steam

The Dreadnought—type of the Peter the Great

The Russian Army—Regular Troops

Cossack Lancers and Russian Guard-house

The Russian Army—Irregular Troops

Grand-duke Michael

Iron-clad Steamer of the Baltic Fleet

Little Folks at School

Learning to Weave

Mineral Cabinet in the University

Parlor in a High-school for Women

Private Room of a wealthy Student

Lower Recitation-room

One of the Professors

Descending a Shaft

Galleries in a Mine

In the Library

A College Dormitory

Jewish Burial-ground

Clothes-dealer of Moscow

A Russian Troika

A Villa on the Island

A Russian Family

Culprit Street-sweepers

A Business Transaction

Peter the Great dressed for Battle

An Imperial Nosegay

Mujiks playing Cards

Peasant's House in Southern Russia

Peasants' Huts

Esthonian Peasants

Alexander II., the Liberator of the Serfs

Alexander III., Emperor of Russia

Battle between Russians and Circassians

Schamyl's Village in the Caucasus

The Empress Marie Féodorovna, Wife of Alexander III.

Russian Peasants at their Recreation

"Who is the Spy?"

Officers sitting in Judgment

Russian Grand-duke and Grand-duchess

Fur-bearing Seals

Sea-otter

The Beaver

The Ermine

The Raccoon

Russian Ice-hills

Soldiers off Duty—Butter-week

The Easter Kiss—agreeable

The Easter Kiss—in the Family

The Easter Kiss—difficult

The Easter Kiss—disagreeable

The Emperor's Easter Kiss

Peasant Girl in Winter Dress

A Bath in the East

Russian Street Scene in Winter

Lost in a Snow-storm

Workmen of Novgorod—Glazier, Painter, and Carpenters

An Old Norse Chief

View on the Steppe

Ivan the Terrible

Alexis Michailovitch, Father of Peter the Great

Michael Feodorovitch, First Czar of the Romanoff Family

Too near to be pleasant

Wolf attacking its Hunters

Old Picture in the Church

A Bishop of the Greek Church

Millennial Monument at Novgorod

Russian Boats

Portrait of Catherine II. in the Kremlin Collection

Street Scene in Moscow

Bivouacking in the Snow

Battle between French and Russians

Napoleon Retreating from Moscow

Alexander I.

View in the Kremlin

A Prisoner ordered to Execution

The Kremlin of Moscow

The Great Bell underground

Visiting the Great Bell

Empress Anne

The Empress Elizabeth

Coronation of Alexander III.

Peter II.

Bishop in his Robes

Great Gun at Moscow

The Cathedral at Moscow

Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow

Dress of Peasants—Scene from a Russian Opera

A Dressing-room of the Opera-house

Working the Ship in "L'Africaine"

Minin-Pojarsky Monument

Peter's Escape from Assassination

Peter the Great as Executioner

Catherine I.

Catherine II.

Grand-duke Nicholas Alexandrovitch

Skinned and Stuffed Man

Russian Beggars

Tartar Coffee-house in Southern Russia

Gallery in the Palace

Copy of Picture in the Monastery

Window in Church of the Trinity

Pity the Poor

Curious Agate at Troitska

Paper-knife from Troitska—St. Sergius and the Bear

Specimens of Ecclesiastical Painting on Glass

Russian Cooper's Shop and Dwelling

Nijni Novgorod during the Fair

Nijni Novgorod after the Fair

Tartar Merchant

Returning from the Fair

Launching a Russian Barge

Tartar Village near the Volga

Tartar Baker's Shop

A Siberian Village

Petropavlovsk, Kamtchatka.—Mount Avatcha in Background

A Herd of Reindeer

Dog teams and Reindeer

Light-house at Ghijigha

Ermine-trap

Interior of a Native House

The Reindeer

Fish-market at Nicolayevsk

Scenery on the Amoor

Gilyak Woman

Gilyak Man

Native Boat—Amoor River

Goldee Children

A Goldee Man and Woman

Inauguration of Genghis Khan

Junction of the Argoon and Shilka to form the Amoor

Scene in a Posting Station

A Tarantasse

Changing Horses at a Siberian Station

The Right of Way in Russia

Getting out of Difficulty

Valley of the Amoor above Ouk-se-me

Interior of an Exile's Hut

Exiles passing through a Village

A Town built by Exiles

Banished for Five Years

Banished for Three Years

Colonist's Village in Winter

Exiles leaving Moscow

Tagilsk, centre of Iron-mines of Siberia

A Siberian Valley

Two Exiled Friends Meeting

Escaping Exiles crossing a Stream

Ivanoff's Cave

Exiles among the Mountains

Siberian Peasants

Siberian Milk-women

Siberia in Summer

An Exile Peasant and his Friends

A Siberian Landscape

Girls Playing at Skakiet

A Village Festival

Russian Peasant Women

Making Calls after a Wedding

Ceremony after a Peasant's Wedding

The Mountains near Chetah

A Bouriat Village

A Wandering Priest

Crossing the Selenga

Finding Lodgings at Kiachta

Chinese Cash from Mai-mai-chin

Articles of Russian Manufacture

Scene in a Chinese Temple

Theatre at Mai-mai-chin

The Tiger

A Natural Arch on Lake Baikal

Caverns on Lake Baikal

Part of Irkutsk

View of the Principal Square in Irkutsk

Dressed for the Road

A Vashok

My Kibitka

Farewell to Irkutsk

Work of the Frost-king

Interior of a Russian Inn

Mail-driver and Guard

Distant View of a Siberian Village

Soldiers in Siberian Ferry-boats

View of Krasnoyarsk from the opposite Bank of the Yenisei

A Dangerous Ride

Beggar at a Siberian Station

Policeman at Krasnoyarsk

Hills near a Siberian River

Jumping an "Oukhaba"

Wolves Attacking a Buffalo

A Siberian Wolf

Summer and Winter in Russia

Village on a Russian Estate

A Slight Mishap

Summer View near Barnaool

Attacked by a Tiger

Bearcoots and Wolves

The Steppe in Summer

Specimen of Rock-crystal

Monument at the Boundary

Western Slope of the Ural Mountains

Descending a Hill-side Road

Baptizing through the Ice

End of the Sleigh-ride

Offering of the Villagers

Shoeing an Ox

Knife-whip

Armenian Bishop of Astrachan

A Tartar Khan

Tartar Postilions

Tartar Palaces in Southern Russia

Gypsy Family at Astrachan

An Oil-steamer on the Caspian Sea

Tanks at a Storage Depot

View in an Oil Region

Bits for Drilling Wells

A Spouting Well

Derrick and Tanks in the American Oil Region

An Oil Refinery with Tank Cars

Tartar Camel-cart at Baku

Ancient Mound near the Caspian Sea

Curious Rock Formations

Modern Fire-worshippers—Parsee Lady and Daughter

A Burning Tank

A Fall in Oil

A Rise in Oil

Camp Scene near the Altai Mountains

A Kalmuck Priest

Scene on the Edge of the Kirghese Steppe

Kirghese Group

Kirghese Chief and Family

Caravan in Russian Territory

Kirghese Raid on a Hostile Tribe

Lasgird—A Fortified Village in Northern Persia

Tower of Refuge

Framework of Turcoman Tent

The Tent Covered

Interior of Tent

Vámbéry's Reception by Turcoman Chief on the Caspian Shore

Receiving Payment for Human Heads—Khiva

Turcoman Trophy—A Russian Head

Kökbüri—A Race for a Bride

View of the Citadel of Khiva

An Ozbek Head

Map showing the Relations of Russia and England in the East

Sand-storm in the Desert

Turcoman Court of Justice

Kirghese Tomb

Charge of Russian Cavalry against Turcomans

Russian Army on the Turcoman Steppes

Winter Camp in Turcomania

Turcoman Irrigating Wheel

Scene at a Ferry on the Oxus

Map of the Russo-Afghan Region

Turcoman Woman Spinning

Village of Turcoman Tents

The New Russo-Afghan Frontier

Old Sarakhs

Sarik Turcoman Woman

Pul-i-Khisti and Ak Tapa

Penjdeh

Colonel Alikhanoff

The Great Highway of Central Asia

Turcoman Farm-yard

Map of Turkestan, showing Route of Trans-Caspian Railway

Crossing a River in Central Asia

A Native Traveller

Looking down on the Steppe

View of Tiflis

The Pass of Dariel, Caucasus

Governor-general of the Caucasus

Ruined Fortress in the Caucasus

Ruined Church near Batoum

Quarantine Harbor, Trebizond

View of Erzeroom

Turkish Authority

View of Sebastopol

Ruins of the Malakoff, Sebastopol

Russian Carpenters at Work

Cossacks and Chasseurs

British Soldiers in Camp

Alfred Tennyson

A Broken Tarantasse

The Bosporus

Map to accompany the Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire

Map showing the Russian Empire Routes as Described by the Boy Travellers

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