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_aBates, Lindon, Jr., _d1883-1915 |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | _aThe Russian road to China |
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_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025 |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 500 | _a"With illustrations from photographs." | ||
| 500 | _aRelease date is 2025-10-19 | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aThe path of the Cossack -- The Great Siberian Railway -- In Irkutsk -- Sledging through Transbaikalia -- In Tatar tents -- The city of the reborn god -- Russia in evolution -- The story of the Hordes -- China. | |
| 508 | _aAlan, deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) | ||
| 520 | _aThe Russian road to China by Jr. Lindon Bates is a historical travel narrative written in the early 20th century. It traces the overland corridor from European Russia across Siberia and Mongolia to the Chinese frontier, blending on-the-spot travel with a sweeping history of Cossack conquest, caravan trade, and the coming of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The focus is the route’s geography, peoples, and politics—from the Urals and Lake Baikal to Urga, the Great Wall, and Peking. The tone mixes history, reportage, and geopolitical reflection. The opening of this work first sketches the “path of the Cossack,” showing how the fur trade, the Stroganovs’ ventures, and Yermak’s campaigns opened Siberia and led to pledging the new realm to Ivan the Terrible, then follows the push east to Yakutsk and the Pacific, the treaties that closed and reopened trade, and the great tea caravans through Kiahta and Urga. It argues that railways and war shifted Russia’s access to China, with the Manchurian route crippled after conflict and the old Mongolian road holding future promise. Bates paints vivid scenes of Cossacks, settlers, Old Believers, Buriats, and Mongol lamas, and the stark contrasts of empire and steppe. The narrative then shifts aboard the Trans-Siberian: a wintry climb over the Urals, life in the dining car, a former political convict’s seven-year march, the vast monotony of the steppe, and stops that prompt tales of Omsk’s river web, Tomsk’s missed railway link, the great railway strike, exile to the Yakutsk, and the Crown’s “cabinetski” domains. It closes this beginning with the train nearing Irkutsk and Lake Baikal, promising a closer look at the city and the road ahead. (This is an automatically generated summary.) | ||
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_pOriginally published: _cBoston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1910 |
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| 653 | _aChina -- Description and travel | ||
| 653 | _aSiberia (Russia) -- Description and travel | ||
| 653 | _aVelikaia Siberskaia magistral | ||
| 856 | 4 | _uhttps://archive.org/details/russianroadtochi00bateuoft | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77082 |
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