PKEFACE. 



through his Hteravy training and Large oxperionce, well acquaint- 

 ed Avith the several technical branches of industry included in 

 this review. This enormous work is now drawing to a close; the 

 hrst volume of The Manufactures and Trade of llussia is here 

 presented, and the second is in press, while a third volume, on 

 Siberia, is nearly ready. 



The condition of the remaining branches of Russian In- 

 dustry, the review of which is not included in these volumes, is 

 represented in editions of other Departments. Thus, the Ministry 

 of Crown Domains publishes a volume on The Mining Industry, 

 a second volume on Agriculture and Forestry, and the Ministry 

 of Ways of Communication, a Review of the Railway and Steam- 

 boat Lines of the Empire. 



V. I. Kovalevsky, 



Director, Department 

 of Trade and Manufacture. 



St. Petersburg, June 12, 1893. 



