Manchuria, 263, 264
Manchus, the, 264, 265, 269
Meat, export of, 238, 253
Minerals, export of, 30. See also Mining
Ming dynasty, the, 264
Mining, 71, 218–221; capital, foreign, scope for, 237, 246; coal, 254; convict labour, 183; copper, 254; iron, 254; machinery, demand for, 239, 240, 259; rights, method of acquiring, 246; transport, 255, 256; wages, 246
Minusinsk, 41, 57, 251, 277
Minusinsk steppe, the, 49
Mongol Empire, the, 171
Mongolia, exports, 274, 283 ff.; frontier of, 141, 265, 267; government of, 269 ff. ; imports, 283 ff.; Russian policy in, 294 ff.
Moscow, its Orientalism, 1, 3; economic relations with Siberia, 28, 85
Muscovy, Tsardom of, 172 ff.
Museums, 24, 75
Narim, 136
Nerchinsk, Treaty of, 265, 267
Nitsa,255
Novgorod, Republic of, 172 ff.
Novo-nikolaevsk, 13, 222, 248, 253
Novo-Zemlya, 257
Obdoria, 173
Obdorsk, 136
Obi, the, 13, 84, 207, 251, 253
Omsk, 13, 238, 248, 255
Orenburg, 251
Ostiaks, the, 137, 172, 201, 202
Oxus, the, 9
Passports, 10, 69
Peasant Affairs, Department of, 194
Perm, 6, 254
Petropavlovsk, 9, 222, 238, 248
Poles, 34
Population, 35; density of, 13, 36, 209, 210, 224, 225; of Western Siberia, 223; of Yenisei Government, 224, 225
Prices, general, 29; bread, 100; cotton goods, 284; dairy produce, 211; furs, 138; horses, 66; rye, 227 ; timber, 19, 216; wheat, 227, 259; wool, 286
Prison Committee, the, 194
Prisons, 89 ff., 190
Provision trade, the, 239
Public Health Department, the, 194
Railways, capital, foreign, scope for, 236; comfort of travelling, 10; development of, effect of, on development of Siberia, 222; Great Siberian Railway, the, 250 ff.; material, importation of, 259; North Siberian Railway, the, 255; Omsk-Tiumen Railway, the, 249; projected, 253 ff. See Transport
Religion, 165 ff,; Easter in the Greek Church, 51, 61; social divisions, effect of religion on, 34; of the Tartars, 53, 80; toleration between Tartar and Slav, 6, 54; the village church, 107, 108; the village priest, 109, 110
Restaurants, 18
Revolution, the, of 1904–1905, 192; Chinese, 269 ff., 273, 303
Revolutionary party, the, 106
Rivers. See Transport
Roads. See Transport
Russo-Japanese War, the, 21, 102, 192, 252, 298
Sable, decrease in numbers of, 164
Saghalien, 190
Sajansk Mountains, the, 49, 94
Salayersk, 219
Samara, 5
Samoyedes, the, 137, 172, 198, 201, 202
Sasonoff, M., 295
Semipalatinsk, 208, 220, 253
Senin, 269
Sibir, Khanate of, 171, 174, 201, 263
Silver mining, 219, 220
Sir Darya, the, 9
Soboleff, Professor, 261, 271, 276, 278, 283