This is intended to be a companion volume to Japan, and therefore follows the same general plan and arrangement. It aims to present in small compass a somewhat comprehensive view of the great Muscovite power. After a short description of the country and race, we pass to a brief review of the history and religion including ritual and ceremonial observances of the Greek Church. Next come descriptions of regions, cities and architectural marvels; and then follow articles on the various manners and customs of rural and town life. The arts of the nation are treated comprehensively; and a chapter of the latest statistics concludes the rapid survey. The material is all selected from the writings of those who speak with authority on the subjects with which they deal.

The Russian Empire is so vast that it would be impossible to give detailed descriptions of all its parts in a work of this size: therefore I have been forced to be content with more general descriptions of provinces with an occasional addition of a typical city.

E. S.

New York, April 21, 1904.

CONTENTS

PART I
THE COUNTRY AND RACE
[The Russian Empire]
Prince Kropotkine.
[Siberia]
Jean Jacques Élisée Reclus.
[The Russian Races]
W. R. Morfill.
PART II
HISTORY AND RELIGION
[The History of Russia]
W. R. Morfill.
[Church Service]
Alfred Maskell.
[The Creeds of Russia]
Ernest W. Lowry.
PART III
DESCRIPTIONS
[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 IV
MANNERS 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 V
ART 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 VI
STATISTICS
[Present Conditions]
E. S.

ILLUSTRATIONS

[MOSCOW]
[ARCHANGEL]
[REVEL]
[SIBERIAN NATIVES]
[SAMOJEDES OF NOVA ZEMBLA]
[ROOM OF THE TSAR MICHAILOWITCH, MOSCOW]
[CHURCH OF THE ASSUMPTION]
[A RELIGIOUS PROCESSION, KOLA]
[SHRINE IN THE CONVENT SOLOVETSKII, KOLA]
[ST. PETERSBURG]
[THE HERMITAGE, ST. PETERSBURG]
[HELSINGFORS, FINLAND]
[REINDEER TRAVELLING]
[MOSCOW]
[THE KREMLIN, MOSCOW]
[VASSILI—BLAGENNOI (ST. BASIL THE BLESSED), MOSCOW]
[NOWO ZJAZD STREET, WARSAW]
[HOTEL DEVILLE, WARSAW]
[THE DNIEPER AT KIEF]
[LA LAVRA, KIEF]
[NIJNI—NOVGOROD (BRIDGE OF THE FAIR)]
[FROM THE RAMPARTS OF THE KREMLIN, NIJNI—NOVGOROD]
[PLACE TUREMNAJA, ODESSA]
[SEBASTOPOL]
[KHARKOFF]
[TIFLIS]
[THE WINTER PALACE, ST. PETERSBURG]
[RUSSIAN FARM SCENE]
[THE TSAR'S DINING-ROOM, MOSCOW]
[ST. ISAAC'S CATHEDRAL, ST. PETERSBURG]
[ST. ANNE RESTAURANT, WIBORG]
[THE RED SQUARE, MOSCOW]
[CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER, MOSCOW]
[STATUE OF PETER THE GREAT AND THE ADMIRALTY PALACE, ST. PETERSBURG]
[THE THEATRE, ODESSA]
[THE LIBRARY, ODESSA]
[THE TSAR NICHOLAS]
[THE TSARINA]
[KALKSTRASSE AND PROMENADE, RIGA]

[THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE]

PRINCE KROPOTKINE