Front matter
Reading edition
A MAID OF OLD MUSCOVY
(From a painting by Venuga)
THE RUSSIAN ROAD TO CHINA
BY
LINDON BATES, Jr.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1910
COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY LINDON BATES, JR.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published May 1910
CONTENTS
I. The Path of the Cossack 1
II. The Great Siberian Railway 25
III. In Irkutsk 71
IV. Sledging through Transbaikalia 114
V. In Tatar Tents 173
VI. The City of the Reborn God 220
VII. Russia in Evolution 273
VIII. The Story of the Hordes 322
IX. China 364
ILLUSTRATIONS
A Maid of Old Muscovy From a painting by Venuga Frontispiece
Yermak’s Expedition to Sibir, attacked by the Tatars From a painting by Surikova 8
Church of St. Basil, Moscow Ivan the Terrible blinded its architect that he might never duplicate the masterpiece 20
Bridge over the Irtish 38
Along the Trans-Siberian Railway 38
Dining-Car Saloon—View of the Library 46
Cities of New Russia—Tiumen, Tomsk, Perm 50
Island of Kaltigei, Lake Baikal 68
Village of Listvianitchnoe, Lake Baikal 68
The Angara River, Irkutsk 76
The Cathedral, Irkutsk 76
A Chapel in Irkutsk 86
Bolshoiskaia, Irkutsk 86
The Bazaar, Irkutsk 90
The Ice-Breaker, Yermak—Lake Baikal 98
The Organizers of the Chita Republic 108
Baikal Station 116
The Highlands of Transbaikalia 116
Sledging Southwards 126
Siberian Types—Peasant, Village Storekeeper 136
Peasant Types 150
A Chickoya Girl 164
A Troitzkosavsk Student 164
A Wayside Temple 178
A Mongol Belle and her Yurta 186
A Zabaikalskaia Buriat 186
A Mongol “Black Man” 206
Temple of Gigin, Urga 222
Temple in the Urga Lamasery 228
A Prostrating Pilgrimage 234
A Grand Lama 244
Chinese Mandarin 256
Gigin, the Living Buddha 256
Chinese Archway, Urga Maimachen 262
The Great Wall 270
The Kremlin, Moscow 282
Russian Types—Dragoon, Constable 292
Street Scenes in Moscow (The Tverskaia Gate, Loubianskaia Place) 302
Russian Types—Peddler, Policeman 316
The Miracle of Attila’s Repulse (From the painting by Raphael in the Vatican) 332
On the Road to the Ming Tombs 342
The Glory is departed 360
The Bridge and Tablets in Pei-hai 368
Hsuen-wu Gate, Peking 374
Peking, where the Allies’ Main Assault was made 380
Summer Palace of the Emperor 388
Map of Asia, showing Route from Moscow to Peking 392
THE RUSSIAN ROAD TO CHINA