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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)

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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;…

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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…

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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…

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Chapter 20 - Russian Reception Ceremony; Simbirsk, Samara, and Saratov; German …

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Chapter 21 - Russian Conquest in Turkestan; Kirghese Tribes; Russian Taxes; Tur…

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Chapter 22 - Turcoman Country; Trans-Caspian Railway; Skobeleff's Campaign; Riv…

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Chapter 23 - Tiflis; Batoum and its Importance; Trebizond and Erzeroom; Short H…

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