The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire
Thomas Wallace Knox (1835 - 1896)
An engaging travelogue first published in 1886, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. Subtitle: 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 Foundation to the Present Time. This book is part of The Boy Travellers series by Thomas W. Knox. - Summary by S Caulkins
Genre(s): Travel Fiction, Fictional Biographies & Memoirs, Historical
Language: English
Keyword(s): history (880), slavery (143), Russia (95), travelogue (19), Crimean War (14), Siberia (9), Peter the Great (8), cossacks (8), russian empire (8), constantinople (6) ... [Show full list]
Keyword(s): history (880), slavery (143), Russia (95), travelogue (19), Crimean War (14), Siberia (9), Peter the Great (8), cossacks (8), russian empire (8), constantinople (6), marco polo (4), charge of the light brigade (4), volga (4), russo-turkish war (4), moscow (3), steppe (3), romanoff (3), sébastopol (3), afghan (2), kazan (2), st. petersburg (2), russian education (2), russian jews (2), wieliczka (2), turkestan (2), skobeleff (2), russian police (1), russian censorship (1), nevski project (1), church of kazan (1), great inundation of 1824 (1), admiralty square (1), alexander's column (1), pan-slavic union (1), winter palace (1), emperor nicholas (1), gostinna dvor (1), russian customs (1), st. nevski (1), summer garden (1), kriloff (1), peterhof (1), summer palace (1), cronstadt (1), russian army (1), russian bribery (1), mujiks (1), russian serfdom (1), russian law (1), neva (1), novorod the great (1), rurik (1), kremlin (1), church of st. basil (1), great theater of moscow (1), traktir (1), simonoff monastery (1), troitska (1), kamchatka (1), gold-mining (1), exiles (1), tea-trains (1), kiachta (1), russian trade (1), baikal (1), irkutsk (1), german settlers (1), caspian sea (1), baku oil (1), kirghese (1), marriage customs (1), turcoman (1), tiflis (1), batoum (1), trebizond (1), balaklava (1), odessa (1)
