Writer: Donald Mackenzie Wallace

RUSSIA by Donald Mackenzie Wallace Copyright 1905 Contents Preface CHAPTER I TRAVELLING IN RUSSIA Railways--State Interference--River Communications--Russian "Grand Tour"--The Volga--Kazan--Zhigulinskiya Gori--Finns and Tartars--The Don--Difficulties of Navigation--Discomforts--Rats--Hotels and Their Peculiar Customs--Roads--Hibernian Phraseology Explained-- Bridges--Posting--A Tarantass--Requisites for Travelling-- Travelling in Winter--Frostbitten--Disagreeable Episodes--Scene at a Post-Station. CHAPTER II IN THE NORTHERN FORESTS Bird's-eye View of Russia--The Northern Forests--Purpose