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CONTENTS
| CHAPTER I | ||
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| On the Great Siberian Railway | 1 | |
| Russia and the East—Moscow—The Power of the Bureaucracy—Through European Russia by Rail—The Decline of the Peasant Commune—A Tartar Village—Tartar and Slav—The Siberian Borderland—The Steppes—A Wayside Station—Russian Asia—Fellow-Travellers—The Englishman at a Disadvantage—A Russian Commercial Traveller—Siberia for the Siberians—Russian Fatalism—The Baraba Steppe—The Altai Uplift—The Yenisei—Krasnoyarsk. | ||
| CHAPTER II | ||
| A Siberian Commercial Town (Krasnoyarsk) | 16 | |
| First Impressions—Hotels—Restaurants—Commerce—A Progressive Siberian—The Problem of the Jews—English Commercial Methods—Municipal Government—Education—Militarism—The Decline of the Bazaar—Current Prices—Commercial Possibilities—Urban Society—The Breakdown of the Caste System—The Growth of the Industrial Proletariat—Current Wages—Economic Conclusions. | ||
| CHAPTER III | ||
| A Journey on the Siberian Post Road (Atchinsk to Minusinsk) | 40 | |
| Siberian Roads—The Change of Seasons—A Typical Provincial Town—Our Cart Caravan—Immigrants—A Night in a Siberian Peasant's Hut—Bargaining—Peasant Agriculture—A Vast Country—Siberian Villages—Siberian Fare—The Abakansk Steppes—Easter Eve—The Breaking of the Fast—Russified Tartars—The Tartar Religion—A Village Holiday—Crossing the Yenisei—Minusinsk—Finding Lodgings. | ||
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