Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire


An engaging travelogue first published in 1886, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. Subtitle: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with Accounts of a Tour across Siberia, Voyages on the Amoor, Volga, and Other Rivers, a Visit to Central Asia, Travels Among the Exiles, and a Historical Sketch of the Empire from its Foundation to the Present Time. This book is part of The Boy Travellers series by Thomas W. Knox. - Summary by S Caulkins (14 hr 12 min)

Chapters

Chapter 1 - Vienna to Cracow; Wieliczka; Churches and Palaces Underground; Subt… 40:56
Chapter 2 - Russian Frontier; Police and the Custom-house; Censorship; a Smuggl… 31:06
Chapter 3 - St. Petersburg; Isvoshchiks and Droskies; Passports; Nevski Prospec… 36:34
Chapter 4 - A Russian Restaurant; Russian Tea-drinkers; Alexander's Column; For… 28:23
Chapter 5 - The People; Pan-Slavic Union; St. Isaac's Church; the Winter Palace… 27:37
Chapter 6 - The Gostinna Dvor; Russian Shopping; Curious Customs; St. Alexander… 38:04
Chapter 7 - Newspapers; The Censorship; Peterhof, Oranienbaum, and Cronstadt; t… 41:43
Chapter 8 - Education in Russia; Universities in the Empire; Religious Liberty;… 39:14
Chapter 9 - Mujiks; "The Imperial Nosegay;” Russian Serfdom; Present Condition … 29:58
Chapter 10 - Winter in Russia; Official Opening of the Neva; "Butter-week;" Kis… 31:38
Chapter 11 - Novgorod the Great; Rurik and his Successors; John the Terrible; E… 38:36
Chapter 12 - Moscow; Napoleon's Campaign in Russia; Burning of Moscow; The Krem… 56:10
Chapter 13 - Great Theatre of Moscow; Gorod and Dvor; Romanoffs; the Rulers of … 42:12
Chapter 14 - Troitska Monastery; European Fairs; Minin's Tomb and Tower; Down t… 32:57
Chapter 15 - Avatcha Bay; Attack upon Petropavlovsk; Dogs and Dog-driving; Kamt… 34:58
Chapter 16 - Exiles of Siberia; Perpetual Colonists; Lodging-houses and Prisons… 36:00
Chapter 17 - Siberian Population; Absence of Serfdom; A Russian Fête; Courtship… 35:24
Chapter 18 - Mai-Mai-Chin; Chinese Governor; Theatrical Performance; Lake Baika… 35:56
Chapter 19 - Krasnoyarsk; Russian Pronunciation; The "Oukhaba”; Road-fever; Wol… 40:40
Chapter 20 - Russian Reception Ceremony; Simbirsk, Samara, and Saratov; German … 37:44
Chapter 21 - Russian Conquest in Turkestan; Kirghese Tribes; Russian Taxes; Tur… 35:05
Chapter 22 - Turcoman Country; Trans-Caspian Railway; Skobeleff's Campaign; Riv… 41:43
Chapter 23 - Tiflis; Batoum and its Importance; Trebizond and Erzeroom; Short H… 40:08