CONTENTSPART ITHE COUNTRY AND RACE[The Russian Empire]Prince Kropotkine.[Siberia]Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus.[The Russian Races]W. R. Morfill. PART IIHISTORY AND RELIGION[The History of Russia]W. R. Morfill.[Church Service]Alfred Maskell.[The Creeds of Russia]Ernest W. Lowry. PART IIIDESCRIPTIONS[St. Petersburg]J. Beavington Atkinson.[Finland]Harry De Windt.[Lapland]Alexander Platonovich Engelhardt.[Moscow (The Kremlin and its treasuries—The Ancient Regalia—The Romanoff House)]Alfred Maskell.[Vassili-Blagennoi (St. Basil the Blessed)]Théophile Gautier.[Poland]Thomas Michell.[Kief, the City of Pilgrimage]J. Beavington Atkinson.[Nijni-Novgorod]Antonio Gallenga.[The Volga Basin. (The Great River—Kasan—Tsaritzin—Astrakhan)]Antonio Gallenga.[Odessa]Antonio Gallenga.[The Don Cossacks]Thomas Michell.[In the Caucasus]J. Buchan Teller.[Khiva]Fred Burnaby.[The Trans-Siberian Railway]William Durban. PART IVMANNERS AND CUSTOMS[High Life in Russia]The Countess of Galloway.[Rural Life in Russia]Lady Verney[Food and Drink]H. Sutherland Edwards.[Carnival-Time and Easter]A. Nicol Simpson.[Russian Tea and Tea-Houses]H. Sutherland Edwards.[How Russia Amuses Itself]Fred Whishaw.[The Kirghiz and their Horses]Fred Burnaby.[Winter in Moscow]H. Sutherland Edwards.[A Journey by Sleigh]Fred Burnaby. PART VART AND LITERATURE[Russian Architecture]Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc.[Sculpture and Painting]Philippe Berthelot.[Russian Music]A. E. Keeton.[Russian Literature]W. R. Morfill. PART VISTATISTICS[Present Conditions]E. S.