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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

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Chapter 1 - Vienna to Cracow; Wieliczka; Churches and Palaces Underground; Subterranean Lake.	Lynette Caulkins	00:40:56
Play 02	Chapter 2 - Russian Frontier; Police and the Custom-house; Censorship; a Smuggler; Warsaw; to St. Petersburg.	jenno	00:31:06
Play 03	Chapter 3 - St. Petersburg; Isvoshchiks and Droskies; Passports; Nevski Prospect; Church of Kazan; Great Inundation of 1824; Peter the Great; Admiralty Square.	Rita Boutros	00:36:34
Play 04	Chapter 4 - A Russian Restaurant; Russian Tea-drinkers; Alexander's Column; Fortress of Sts. Peter and Paul; Assassinations; Russian Police and their Ways.	BettyB	00:28:23
Play 05	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.	Elsie Selwyn	00:27:37
Play 06	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.	Rita Boutros	00:38:04
Play 07	Chapter 7 - Newspapers; The Censorship; Peterhof, Oranienbaum, and Cronstadt; the Summer Palace; Cronstadt and the Naval Station; The Russian Army; The Cossacks.	Rita Boutros	00:41:43
Play 08	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.	Rita Boutros	00:39:14
Play 09	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.	Elsie Selwyn	00:29:58
Play 10	Chapter 10 - Winter in Russia; Official Opening of the Neva; "Butter-week;" Kissing at Easter; Russian Stoves and Baths; Effects of Severe Cold.	Nidhi Prakash	00:31:38
Play 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.	Rita Boutros	00:38:36
Play 12	Chapter 12 - Moscow; Napoleon's Campaign in Russia; Burning of Moscow; The Kremlin; Anecdotes of Russian Life; The Church of St. Basil.	Andrew Ryals	00:56:10
Play 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.	Rita Boutros	00:42:12
Play 14	Chapter 14 - Troitska Monastery; European Fairs; Minin's Tomb and Tower; Down the Volga by Steamboat; Kazan; The Route to Siberia.	Owlivia	00:32:57
Play 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.	Mario Pineda	00:34:58
Play 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.	jenno	00:36:00
Play 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.	jenno	00:35:24
Play 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.	BettyB	00:35:56
Play 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.	Mairi MacLean	00:40:40
Play 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.	Elsie Selwyn	00:37:44
Play 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.	Owlivia	00:35:05
Play 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.	BettyB	00:41:43
Play 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.	KevinS	00:40:08

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