CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Preface . . . . . . .7 



Introduction . . . . -19 



CHAPTER I 



St. Petersburg — Moscow — En Route fob Siberia . 25 



Object of the exile system — and of the great Siberian 

 Railway — Growth of Agriculture in Siberia — Object of 

 the author's visit to Siberia — A letter from Professor 

 SapozhnikofE of Tomsk University — Departure from 

 London— The Kiel Canal — In the Baltic— Riga — YuryefE 

 — Peterhof — St. Petersburg — Idiosyncrasies of the Russian 

 "jarvey" — The Nevsky Prospect — St Isaac's Cathedral — 

 The Neva— The Fortress of St. Peter and St. Paul- 

 Moscow — The great Siberian Railway Station — Booking 

 for Siberia — Railway comforts^-Across the Steppes 

 — The " vertsman " — Dinner on the cars — Sleeping 

 arrangements — Crossing the Volga — Iron and Steel 

 industries of Ufa — Zlatoust, the Russian Sheffield — 

 The Orenburg gold-fields — Cheliabinsk — The Govern- 

 ment of Tobolsk — Climate — Immensity of the country — 

 Kourgan — Bazaar and Easter fair — Sensational journalism 

 — Exile to Siberia. 



CHAPTER H 



The Siberian Railway and Dairy Industry . . 52 



Financial prospects of the great railway — Its indirect 

 value to the country — The cultivation and export of cereals 



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