The Boy Travellers in The Russian Empire

1. Chapter 1 - Vienna to Cracow; Wieliczka; Churches and Palaces Underground; Subterranean Lake.

   40:56

2. Chapter 2 - Russian Frontier; Police and the Custom-house; Censorship; a Smuggler; Warsaw; to St. Petersburg.

   31:06

3. Chapter 3 - St. Petersburg; Isvoshchiks and Droskies; Passports; Nevski Prospect; Church of Kazan; Great Inundation of 1824; Peter the Great; Admiralty Square.

   36:34

4. Chapter 4 - A Russian Restaurant; Russian Tea-drinkers; Alexander's Column; Fortress of Sts. Peter and Paul; Assassinations; Russian Police and their Ways.

   28:23

5. Chapter 5 - The People; Pan-Slavic Union; St. Isaac's Church; the Winter Palace and the Hermitage; the Crown Jewels; the Emperor Nicholas; Peter the Great; from Palace to Prison; a Monument.

   27:37

6. Chapter 6 - The Gostinna Dvor; Russian Shopping; Curious Customs; St. Alexander Nevski; A Persian Train; The Summer Garden; Kriloff and his Fables; a Russian Theatre.

   38:04

7. Chapter 7 - Newspapers; The Censorship; Peterhof, Oranienbaum, and Cronstadt; the Summer Palace; Cronstadt and the Naval Station; The Russian Army; The Cossacks.

   41:43

8. Chapter 8 - Education in Russia; Universities in the Empire; Religious Liberty; Treatment of the Jews; The Islands of the Neva; In a "Traktir;" Bribery among Russian Officials.

   39:14

9. Chapter 9 - Mujiks; "The Imperial Nosegay;” Russian Serfdom; Present Condition of the Peasant Class; Seeing the Emperor; Public and Secret Police; Russian Courts of Law.

   29:58

10. Chapter 10 - Winter in Russia; Official Opening of the Neva; "Butter-week;" Kissing at Easter; Russian Stoves and Baths; Effects of Severe Cold.

    31:38

11. Chapter 11 - Novgorod the Great; Rurik and his Successors; John the Terrible; Early History of Russia; An Imperial Bear-hunt; the House of Romanoff; Railways in Russia.

    38:36

12. Chapter 12 - Moscow; Napoleon's Campaign in Russia; Burning of Moscow; The Kremlin; Anecdotes of Russian Life; The Church of St. Basil.

    56:10

13. Chapter 13 - Great Theatre of Moscow; Gorod and Dvor; Romanoffs; the Rulers of Russia; Church of the Saviour; Mosques and Pagodas; The Museum; Riding-school; Suhareff Tower; Traktirs; Old Believers; The Sparrow Hills and the Simonoff Monastery.

    42:12

14. Chapter 14 - Troitska Monastery; European Fairs; Minin's Tomb and Tower; Down the Volga by Steamboat; Kazan; The Route to Siberia.

    32:57

15. Chapter 15 - Avatcha Bay; Attack upon Petropavlovsk; Dogs and Dog-driving; Kamtchatka; Reindeer; The Amoor River; Native; Tigers; Overland Travelling in Siberia; From Stratensk to Nertchinsk; Gold-mining in Siberia.

    34:58

16. Chapter 16 - Exiles of Siberia; Perpetual Colonists; Lodging-houses and Prisons; Convoys; an Escape from Siberia; Secret Roads; How Peasants Treat the Exiles; Prisoners in Chains.

    36:00

17. Chapter 17 - Siberian Population; Absence of Serfdom; A Russian Fête; Courtship and Marriage; Chetah and the Bouriats; Verckne Udinsk; Siberian Robbers; Tea-trains and Tea-trade; Kiachta; Trade between Russia and China.

    35:24

18. Chapter 18 - Mai-Mai-Chin; Chinese Governor; Theatrical Performance; Lake Baikal; Irkutsk; a Long Sleigh-ride; Food on the Road; Siberian Mails; Advantages of Winter Travelling; Krasnoyarsk.

    35:56

19. Chapter 19 - Krasnoyarsk; Russian Pronunciation; The "Oukhaba”; Road-fever; Wolves; Tomsk; Steam Navigation in Siberia; Barnaool; Tigers; the "Bouran"; Baraba Steppe; Tumen and Ekaterineburg; Perm, Kazan, and Nijni Novgorod.

    40:40

20. Chapter 20 - Russian Reception Ceremony; Simbirsk, Samara, and Saratov; German Settlers on the Volga; Don Cossacks; Astrachan; the Caspian Sea; Baku Oil-fields; Balakhani; Temples of the Fire-worshippers; Marco Polo and other Authorities.

    37:44

21. Chapter 21 - Russian Conquest in Turkestan; Kirghese Tribes; Russian Taxes; Turcoman and Kirghese Raids; Prisoners sold into Slavery; Commerce in Turkestan; Vámbéry's Narrow Escape; Marriage Customs among the Turcomans; Population of Central Asia.

    35:05

22. Chapter 22 - Turcoman Country; Trans-Caspian Railway; Skobeleff's Campaign; Rivers of Central Asia; Agriculture; Turcoman Devastation; The Afghan Boundary Question; O'Donovan and MacGahan; Return to Baku.

    41:43

23. Chapter 23 - Tiflis; Batoum and its Importance; Trebizond and Erzeroom; Short History of the Crimean War; Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78; Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaklava; Present Condition of Sebastopol; Odessa; Constantinople.

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