Author

GAUTIER, Theophile, and others.

Title

Russia.
Translated from the French, with an Additional Chapter upon the Struggle for Supremacy in the Far East, by Florence MacIntyre Tyson.

Published, Date

International Press, John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia,1905.

Description

Two volumes 8vo (20.7 x 14.5 cm). viii including title, 483; viii including title, 461 pp. and 50 black & white plates including 2 frontispieces, all with original printed tissue guard; ownership inscription dated December 1905 to upper fly-leaf. Publisher's green cloth, richly gilt with Tsarist regalia and double-headed eagle to upper covers, flat spines lettered in gilt with gilt eagle; lightly rubbed at extremities.

Note

Fine set, attractively bound and richly illustrated, published during the Russo-Japanese war: written by the translator, the last chapter briefly analyzes the geopolitical situation in the Far East in 1904-05 - before the end of the war and the first Russian revolution - and the future of Russia there. The first volumes mainly covers St. Petersburg and Moscow while the second volume deals with Siberia as well as interesting social considerations of Nicholas II's Russia, such as 'The Press and Censorship', 'Literature', 'Russian Art' and... 'The Tea Kingdom'.

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Stock Number

80919