The RUSSIAN EMPIRE





An Illustrated Description of the Russian EmpireIllustrated Description Of RussiaćSears, Robert
An Illustrated Description
of the Russian Empire

New York, 1855


... includes 26 detailed chapters with descriptions ranging from the Baltic Provinces to Russian Poland to Siberia to the Caucasian Provinces with scores of information on such topics as the wild animals of Livonia, the habits of the Russian nobility, the history of the Greek Church, the sources of the Volga River, Jews in the Baltic provinces, the suburbs of Warsaw, the mausoleum of the Khans, the Russian stove and double windows, ship building in St. Petersburg, Siberia as a penal colony and the imperial judicial system.
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