Excerpt from The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey in European and Asiatic Russia, With Accounts of a Tour Across Siberia Voyages on the Amoor, Volga, and Other Rivers, a Visit to Central Asia, Travels Among the Exiles, and a Historical Sketch of the Empire From Its F

Life of Peter the Great and Life of Genghis Khan, by Jacob Ah bott The Siberian Overland Route, by Alexander Michie; Tent-life in Siberia, by George Kennan; Reindeer, Dogs, and Snow-shoes, by Richard J. Bush; The Invasion of the Crimea, by A. W. Kinglake; Fred Markham in Russia, by W. H. G. Kingston; The Knout and the Russians, by G. De Lagny; The Russians at the Gates of Herat and The Region of the Eternal Fire, by Charles Marvin; Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and Oriental and West ern Siberia, by Thomas W. Atkinson; and The Russians at Home, by Sutherland Edwards. The author has also drawn upon several articles in Harper's Magazine, including his own series describing his journey through Siberia.