This book is a very unique book about Russia and Siberia. This book was published in 1899 by Historical Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pa. The book measures 7 ¼ inches by 9 inches and contains 589 pages. The dark blue cover has gilt title on the front and down the spine. The cover shows signs of wear to the edges, corners and to the top and bottom of the spine.. The cover shows signs of water spotting. The spine is tight and the hinges are strong. The edges of the pages are gilt. The pages show no signs of rips or foxing. The book has decorated end pages. A book plate noting a previous owner is attached to the inside front cover. Exceptions noted, the overall condition of this lovely book is good.

Contents:

1. Departure from America; Arrival at Cronstadt; Introduction to Count Tolstoi; An Audience with the Czar
2. How Imperial Palaces are Maintained; How Russia Was Changed from a Republic to an Autocracy; Discovery and Cause of Nihilism
3. Three Great Characters in Russian History; Decapitation of Three Hundred Marines; Assassination of the Czar by the Wife’s Order
4. Reforms Introduced by Alexander II; First Overt Acts of Nihilists; History of Serfdom; How the Noblemen Lived in Profligacy; God Denied and Genius Stifled in Its Cradle; Russian Students and Their Peculiarities
5. The Mysterious Bell; Scientific Murder; Method of Recruiting Nihilism
6. Some Unpublished Secrets About War with Turkey and Effects of Same; Police Force and Mob United Against the Court; Martial Law in Russia; Loss of Life Incidental to the Construction of the Fines Palace in the World; Theoretical Reform and Practical Results
7. The Monstrous Culminating Event in the Nemesis Vengeance, from a Nihilistic Standpoint; Uncovering Crime; Memorial Chapel
8. Uneasy Lies the Head that Wears a Crown; The Palace of Gold; How an Emperor Lives; Daily Routine
9. Amazonian Nihilism; A Comparison of Press and Sword; The Grand Votive Church; The Nemesis in Pursuit and Postponement of Coronation; Pilgrimage to Shrines
10. Antagonistic Array of Factions in Russian Service; Syllabus of Great State Trials; The Famous Sixteen Conspirators; Private Fortunes Sacrificed in the Futile Effort to Defeat the Government; Self-destruction Rather than Defeat
11. En Route to Siberia; A Pathetic Incident of Devotion ; The Kremlin; Ninji Novgorod and the Fair; Peculiarities of Travel on Russian Steamers; The Iron and Malachite Mines
12. An Overland Journey; Post Stations; Interview with the Governor; History of the Origin of Banishment and Importation; Educated Exiles; A Tartar Belle
13. Tobolsk; Female Convicts; Original Method of Fishing
14. Tomsk; The Evasion of Sacred Law; The Value of a Tip; Extraordinary Punishment; Families in Exile
15. The Flying Bridge Across Yenesei River; Social Conditions in Siberia and the Prison House
16. Objects of Interest at Yeniseick; Its Commercial Value as a Fur Bearing District; A Perpetually Frozen Wilderness; The Eccentricities of the Tunguese During the Time of Their Winter Hunt
17. The Value of Siberia as a Mineral Producer; Novel Methods of Mining; A Comparison Between U.S. Gold Fields and Siberia; An Exile’s Story with the Nemesis Pursuing; The Message
18. A Night with Wolves
19. Inkoutsk; Novel Way of Training Horses to Race; Kara Prison and Political Exiles; The Verification
20. Natives of Siberia; Ostjak People; The Gilyaks; Primitive Method of Capturing Dangerous Animals
21. In the Dui Mines; Cannibalism; A Real Snow Storm; Manzas Robbers
22. Belles of Yakontsk and Equestrianism; Peculiar Faith Founded on Scripture; Scopsi Priests
23. Interesting Things About Lena River
24. Penal Mines Retrospectively Considered; Nemesis Still Moving but Humanity is in the Van
25. Returning Through a New Untraveled Route; The Siberian Antelope; The Bridge at Samara; A Serf Village; The Relation Between a Peasant and Nobleman with American Comparisons
26. The Ever Prevalent Superstition; Black and White Clergy; Splendor of Churches; Holidays; Primitive Method of Harvesting; Communistic Principals
27. Count Tolstoi and His Novel Theory, with Comparisons; Church Choirs; Trial, Conviction and Pardon of a Church Woman Who spent $20,000,000 for the Poor; The Close Relationship between Ovation and Riot
28. Cathedral Kazan; Animals and Holy Water; Bacchanalia in Cemeteries; The Missing Middle Class; The Relationship of the Poor to the Taxes; Requirements for Society
29. Parvelosk; St. Petersburg Society During the Winter; Domestic Life by Comparison
30. Count Tolstoi and the Jews; Rothschild’s Interview with the Czar; How Railroads are Conducted in Russia
31. Warsaw; Mayor’s Functions; Theatre for Kings Only; The Wonderful Sun Clocks; Homogeneity; When the Jews Use Bacon; Aristocratic Recognition of the Jews
32. Cause of Attack on Jews; Riot at Elizabethgrud; Odessa; Destruction of Property
33. The Fatal Crowing; Western Russia; Anti-Semitic Prejudice
34. An Irish Millionaire’s Experience; Nationalities by Comparison; A Means for the End
35. Russian and English Governments by Comparison; Muscovite Valor; Church Indulgence of Government Corruption
36. Coronations of Alexander III and Nicholas II; Motives That Govern Russia in Asia, England and France in Africa, and the United States in the Philippines; The Ever Present Nemesis of Misgovernment

Excerpt - Introduction:
No Country on the world’s broad atlas, whether civilized or unexplored, presents so many interesting anomalous phases as does Russia and its immense dependency, Siberia. The very mention of this latter tract of desert waste, its illimitable snow-fields, scintillating under a fugitive sun or stretching away in solemn shadows under a leaden sky until it infringes upon a circumambient horizon, excites our wonder and gives us the one idea of dreariness But ah! Not only is the wilderness of Siberia’s vast and lonely plain a topic which may infuse the humblest pen with power to write a stirring chapter on wild nature, ferocious beasts, and storm-beaten shores freighted with wrecks of hardy adventurers; would that there were no more horrible stories of fact connected with the history of that county which, from infancy, ahs been an immense prison, or battle-ground-a grave-yard of men’s ambitions, the penal ground for patriotic expiation! The Mines! There is no world that so thrills the Russian heart as this, To The Bastile! Uttered during the most dreadful days in French history carried with it but the shadow of a horror compared with that awful sentence: To the Mines of Siberia! In Russia. In France, Marat could only order his victims guillotined, and death came speedily and painlessly. But in Siberia there was the knout and other instruments of torture added to the sentence which confined men and women to a life in the mines, where no light of day was ever permitted to enter, and where the voice of lamentation could never reach a sympathetic ear…
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