THE RUSSIAN ROAD TO CHINA [Illustration: A MAID OF OLD MUSCOVY (From a painting by Venuga)] THE RUSSIAN ROAD TO CHINA BY LINDON BATES, JR. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS [Illustration] BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1910 COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY LINDON BATES, JR. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published May 1910_ CONTENTS I. THE PATH OF THE COSSACK 1 II. THE GREAT SIBERIAN RAILWAY 25 III. IN IRKUTSK 71 IV. SLEDGING THROUGH TRANSBAIKALIA 114 V. IN TATAR TENTS 173 VI. THE CITY OF THE REBORN GOD 220 VII. RUSSIA IN EVOLUTION 273 VIII. THE STORY OF THE HORDES 322 IX. CHINA 364 ILLUSTRATIONS A MAID OF OLD MUSCOVY _Frontispiece_ From a painting by Venuga YERMAK’S EXPEDITION TO SIBIR, ATTACKED BY THE TATARS 8 From a painting by Surikova CHURCH OF ST. BASIL, MOSCOW 20 Ivan the Terrible blinded its architect that he might never duplicate the masterpiece BRIDGE OVER THE IRTISH 38 ALONG THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY 38 DINING-CAR SALOON--VIEW OF THE LIBRARY 46 CITIES OF NEW RUSSIA--TIUMEN, TOMSK, PERM 50 ISLAND OF KALTIGEI, LAKE BAIKAL 68 VILLAGE OF LISTVIANITCHNOE, LAKE BAIKAL 68 THE ANGARA RIVER, IRKUTSK 76 THE CATHEDRAL, IRKUTSK 76 A CHAPEL IN IRKUTSK 86 BOLSHOISKAIA, IRKUTSK 86 THE BAZAAR, IRKUTSK 90 THE ICE-BREAKER, YERMAK--LAKE BAIKAL 98 THE ORGANIZERS OF THE CHITA REPUBLIC 108 BAIKAL STATION 116 THE HIGHLANDS OF TRANSBAIKALIA 116 SLEDGING SOUTHWARDS 126 SIBERIAN TYPES--PEASANT, VILLAGE STOREKEEPER 136 PEASANT TYPES 150 A CHICKOYA GIRL 164 A TROITZKOSAVSK STUDENT 164