Esther Singleton assembles passages by travellers, historians and critics into a portrait of the Russian Empire before the Revolution: Siberia and Finland, the many races of the realm, the services and creeds of the Orthodox Church, St Petersburg and Moscow, peasant villages, the Volga steamers and fairs, and the arts. It was designed as a companion to her similar anthology on Japan.
A browsable armchair tour of Imperial Russia through the eyes of nineteenth-century writers who knew it. Download the free EPUB.