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American attorney-general under Ulysses S. His brief impressions of the imperial family and life in the Russian capital were originally given in an interview to a reporter from the Tribune pp. When Hare visited Russia in the summer of , he was already the author of numerous biographies and travel books. The American clergyman Dr Buckley , his eighteen-year old son, and a family friend set sail from New York on 19 June on a grand tour of northern Europe that would take them by the end of the summer from Scandinavia to St Petersburg, Moscow, and Nizhnii Novgorod and home via Poland.
To go to Russia was a spur-of-the-moment decision and they sailed from Sweden to see the sights of St Petersburg and Moscow before proceeding to Paris via Warsaw pp. Sponsored by the Century magazine and accompanied by the Boston artist and photographer George Frost, Kennan see I59, I93 arrived in Russia for his fourth visit in May He came prepared to give a favourable assessment of the penal system in Siberia, but subsequent meetings and events in Siberia radically changed his views and, through his subsequent book and lectures, those of America.
In the course of eight months, between June and March of the following year, they covered some 8, miles within Siberia. Recorded by Alice Pentlarge Kleeman. He describes diplomatic and high society life in the Russian capital pp. American News Company, A young American woman b. She arrived in St Petersburg on 13 July , did the sights, and then went to Moscow before departing a week later for Warsaw pp. Lothrop, wife of the late honorable George Van Ness Lothrop former minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of the United States to Russia.
Edited by William Prall. Posthumously published letters to members of the family, full of social chit-chat with occasional interesting pen pictures of notable Russians. Preface by William Lyon Phelps. The larger part of the book is devoted to the Soviet period up to , when Emma and two sons escaped from Petrograd into Finland and on to New York. After leaving the Commission, he travelled from Herat to the Black Sea. Period covered 31 August to June Introduction by Rudolph Abraham. Cambridge Scholars Press, Colonel Sir Charles , elder brother of Lt. Yate, covers the period from the summer of until the return of the Commission to India in October and then follows the subsequent negotiations up to February He also recounts his return in February through Transcaspia to Ashkabad and by train to Tiflis and to the Black Sea pp.
Famed Swedish geographer, photographer, polyglot, and travel writer first went to Russia in , travelling via St Petersburg through the Caucasus to Baku, where he spent seven months as a tutor pp. In he travelled through Transcaspia from Krasnovodsk and on to Bokhara and Samarkand before returning through European Russia to Stockholm pp. October saw him off again through Russia to Tashkent and then through Russian to Chinese Turkestan pp. He seems to have covered every blade of grass in Central Asia, Tibet, and Mongolia, before a comparatively sedate return home on the Trans-Siberian at the end of pp.
Edinburgh Press, for private circulaion, Career officer, born in India, Colonel Spottiswoode b. He and his wife left for Moscow in early December. He travelled via Kiev to Moscow and reached St Petersburg, combining remarks on the way of life of the peasants with conventional tourist descriptions pp. Edited with an introduction by [his wife] Beatrice Bateson. Biologist and Cambridge don, Bateson resolved to pursue his study of evolution and specifically of variation as observed at the Aral Sea and other salt lakes in the Kirghiz steppe.
His letters, mainly to members of his family, begin in St Petersburg, where he arrived on 7 May , and end in Petropavlovsk on 16 September Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, Mrs Davis visited St Petersburg and Moscow in the summer of , sightseeing and shopping pp. Bouton , American novelist and writer, visited Petersburg and Moscow in July pp. Religious Tract Society, Michell see I56 left Russia in after fourteen years in St Petersburg.
The chapter on the Crimea and the Caucasus was written by Captain J. Many of the illustrations are by Whymper. Raynor and Taylor, Impressed by the journalist Mikhail Katkov whom he met in Moscow a few days before his death pp. Finally, invited by the Prison Department at St Petersburg to resume his investigations in Siberia, he went for a third time, proceeding to Sakhalin, in late see I pp. Moscow and Nizhnii Novgorod followed and he exited to Warsaw pp. Written for young readers, this round-the-world trip contains material from his various travels, including his visit to Russia pp.
Lee and Shepard, Editor of the Boston Commercial Bulletin and author of the travel accounts Over the ocean and Abroad again , Guild travelled from London to Russia in and visited St Petersburg, Moscow and Nizhnii Novgorod, enlisting the help of James Pilley, a long-time British resident, as his guide and interpreter. Guild provides very much a tourist guide rather than a searching Anglo-Russian comparison pp. This was in fact the second volume of the account of the monumental journey on a penny farthing by the American Stevens b.
His only time in Russia was bike-less, when he left Persia on a Russian steamer for Baku on 3 June , then took the train to Tiflis and on to Batumi, before taking a steamer to Constantinople pp. Writes less about sights than about general historical and social problems pp. Classical scholar, linguist, noted feminist, and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge, Harrison provides a very brief account of her trip to St Petersburg in September to study at the Hermitage, but mainly chides herself for not having immersed herself in Russian culture and society while she had the chance pp.
Gaussen with essays on Russian life and literature. Gaussen , who was to achieve recognition in his short life for his translations from Potapenko, first went to Russia in September in pursuit of his scientific interests, visiting the oil-fields of Baku.
He later delivered a lecture about his journey from St Petersburg to the Caspian pp. He returned to Russia in June to stay with a family in Moscow for ten months and study the Russian language. Letters from that visit are also included pp. Richard Bentley and Son, A young English pianoforte student travelled to Germany, Italy and Russia to study under eminent teachers in the s. She was in particular influenced by the German composer and pianist Adolf Henselt , who in had been given Russian citizenship and ennobled and who divided his time between Germany and Russia.
She is much more informative on the Henselts and their flat than she is about life in St Petersburg pp. Chatto and Windus, Sides with Kennan in the dispute with Lansdell over penal conditions, but is intent on recording the facts of a journey that took him and his companion, Charles Uren, from Shanghai to Vladivostok in early November and some miles by sledge to Tiumen, where they arrived on 18 February With a preface by Sir Edmund Monson. Longmans, Green, and Co. Anglican bishop for central and eastern Europe, the Right Reverend Wilkinson d.
These included many visits to Russia which he had first visited as a young man in , mainly through the Baltic provinces to St Petersburg and Moscow, in pp. Translated from the Danish by Samuel C. Brandes , a highly influential literary critic and professor at the university of Copenhagen, was invited to St Petersburg and Moscow to deliver a series of lectures. He stayed in Russia for three months during , spending some time on an estate south of Moscow.
His book is divided into two parts, the second of which is an informed assessment of Russian literature, and even in the first, literary and cultural matters dominate. Longmans, Green and Co. Hapgood , a leading American translator and writer on Russian literature, visited Russia on several occasions between and She spent much time with Tolstoi in Moscow and Iasnaia Poliana pp. His Russian account is padded out by chapters on the church and nihilism. Russia; its people, its palaces, its politics.
For his journey, twenty-three years later, to the Black Sea area, see K New York, Baltimore, Chicago: There is much in his account about nihilists and on leaving Russia in August he met Stepniak in London, whose views he counters with those of a pro-tsarist Russian in Washington pp. As part of his research into the New Bedford whaling industry, Aldrich b. By a lady astronomer. They were to stay at Pogost, the nearby summer home of a leading Russian astronomer, Professor B [redikhin], where two British members of the Royal Astronomical Society, Dr. C [Copeland] and Father P [erry] had also been invited to observe the eclipse, which duly took place, but in conditions that left them disconsolate.
They journeyed home down the Volga to Nizhnii Novgorod and by train via Warsaw pp. Privately printed in copies. For many years British consul in Kerch and later consul-general in St Petersburg until his transfer to Bucharest and retirement in , Sir Oliver travelled extensively through Georgia in He subsequently devoted himself to the study and promotion of Georgian culture and was in the British Chief Commissioner of Transcaucasus in Tbilisi. He left London on 17 February for St Petersburg, where he stayed for a week before resuming a journey that took him to Moscow for tea with Tolstoi and through Ukraine to Sevastopol, Batumi, Tiflis, and Baku, and then to Bokhara, Samarkand and Tashkent vol.
After duty in South Africa he was sent in as the War Office representative with the Russian army in Manchuria, travelling across Russia pp.
His final visit before the October Revolution came in October , when he had an audience of the tsar at his headquarters at Mogilev pp. In Waters was granted a visa to visit Soviet Union. In this account of his reaction to Russia under the Soviets he recalls in the opening chapter his earlier encounters with imperial Russia pp. The first eight chapters comprise re-written letters originally sent to The Times in the spring of , when Dobson attended the opening of the Transcaspian railway.
The last seven new chapters carry his reflections up to the time of writing preface dated St Petersburg April Five-times mayor of Chicago and assassinated in office, Harrison took his son and a friend on the tour described in the title. His book is based on the detailed letters he sent back to newspapers. After a week of sight-seeing they took the train to Vyborg on 26 July. Tiflis was the starting point for a first expedition over little-known passes of the Caucasus pp.
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They live from hand to mouth, and, knowing this fact, their employers are compelled to look after them in hard times. If they did not, the operatives who are out of employment would scatter and when work was resumed it would be difficult to fill their places. The work of the operatives in linen factories is very trying on the health, because the atmosphere of the rooms is kept as damp as possible in order to soften the threads and make them more pliable. Few of the operatives live past middle life unless they have unusually strong constitutions.
More than half of the flax used in Belfast comes from Russia. Only about twelve thousand tons is raised in Ireland, and that entirely in Ulster Province, where fifty-five thousand acres are devoted to its cultivation. An average of forty thousand tons a year is imported from Holland, Belgium, and other countries, as well as Russia. Knabenshue of Toledo, the American consul, attempted to induce farmers in the Northwest of the United States, who grow flax for the seed, to ship over here the straw they throw away, but he has not succeeded in arousing any interest, although they might find a permanent and profitable market.
Until recently the spinning of the flax into thread was done by separate companies and the thread was sold to the weavers, but several years ago a combine was organized and many of the spinning plants went into a trust, which has enabled them to command better prices and be more independent. The linen manufacturers, however, are practically dependent upon the United States.