ILLUSTRATIONS.

[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]

[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]