A French engineer came to southern Russia to study its geology and stayed nearly five years, crossing the land between the Danube and the Caspian on foot and horseback with his wife Adèle. They record the Black Sea coasts, the Crimea, the northern slopes of the Caucasus and the steppe camps of the Kalmucks, with their roast geese, princes and grasping hosts.
A lively, observant record of the Russian south in the 1840s for lovers of old travel books. Download the free EPUB.