With five photographic plates, title page printed in delicate ornate color borders and decoration. Volume XXII in the Oriental Series.
Blurb: Russia: Its History and Condition to 1877 Vol I. Volume XXII of this Oriental Series, with this volume covering travelling in Russia, in the northern forests, the village priest, a peasant family of the old type, the peasantry of the north, the Mir, or village community, the Tartar villages, the towns and the mercantile classes, Lord Novgorod the Great, the imperial administration and the officials, and the old school and the modern school.