THE REAL SIBERIA
John Foster Fraser

List of Illustrations

  1. Mr Foster Fraser
  2. Map: Mr Fraser's railway journey
  3. Travel advertisement
  4. The road to Siberia
  5. The Siberian is not a good agriculturalist
  6. The popular idea about travel in Siberia
  7. The real way to traverse Siberia
  8. The great bridge over the Volga
  9. The route over the Ural Mountains
  10. Whenever the train halted there was an opportunity for a promenade
  11. Third-class passengers
  12. Omsk station
  13. Cadets at Omsk
  14. The Church of St. Nicholas, Omsk
  15. The ceremony of blessing the waters
  16. Khirgis on the steppes
  17. A Khirgis bride
  18. Village cronies
  19. Dinner time on a farm
  20. The conductor; There is a samovar at every station
  21. The club house at Tomsk
  22. The theatre at Tomsk
  23. Through the Taiga
  24. A wayside station
  25. There is a huge water tower at every station
  26. A typical Siberian station
  27. The city of Irkutsk
  28. Afternoon scene in Irkutsk
  29. The Hotel 'Dekko' at Irkutsk
  30. The chief of Irkutsk Prison
  31. A group of convicts with heads half shaven
  32. In Irkutsk Prison
  33. A group of convicts
  34. Five women who had murdered their husbands
  35. On the road to the monastery
  36. The monastery of St. Innokente
  37. Vladivostok
  38. The great English-built ice-breaker 'Baikal'
  39. Running a train aboard the 'Baikal'
  40. Lake Baikal in summer
  41. The 'Angara' in winter
  42. The 'Angara' on Lake Baikal
  43. My lady acquaintances buy fruit
  44. A couple of Buriats
  45. The 'Baikal' in the ice
  46. The 'Baikal' breaking the ice
  47. Khabarovsk
  48. Batering on the river side
  49. On the river front at Streitinsk
  50. Streitinsk
  51. Down the Amur River
  52. On the banks of the Amur
  53. The city of Tomsk
  54. Down the Amur
  55. A prison barge on the river
  56. The 'Grand Hotel' at Blagovestchensk
  57. The river front at Blagovestchensk
  58. A peasant's house
  59. A village scene
  60. My fellow passengers on the 'De Witte'
  61. Cossack camp on the Manchurian side of the Amur
  62. Three Koreans
  63. From the carriage window in Eastern Siberia
  64. On the Ussuri line
  65. A wayside station
  66. Overlooking Vladivostok
  67. The main street in Vladivostok
  68. How I went across Manchuria
  69. A station in Manchuria
  70. Cossacks and a Chinese cart
  71. A Cossack guard station and watch tower
  72. Cossacks guarding the line; Examining permissions to travel in Manchuria
  73. The author as he travelled over the Hingan Mountains
  74. The post in Manchuria
  75. Some Mongols
  76. A meal on a corner of the Gobi Desert
  77. The governor of Alexandrovski and the chief warder
  78. Bringing in the prisoners' dinner
  79. Three prisoners
  80. 'Politicals' starting up-country
  81. A sleeping room
  82. Prisoners at work
  83. A Siberian road in winter

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