Project Gutenberg 2025-10-19 Public domain in the USA. 717 Bates, Lindon, Jr. 1883 1915 Bates, Lindon Wallace The Russian road to China $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Company, $c1910. "With illustrations from photographs." The 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. Alan, 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) The 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.) https://archive.org/details/russianroadtochi00bateuoft 20250103074128bates 1910 US en China -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel Velikaia Siberskaia magistral DK Text 651607 2025-11-30T10:34:54.477325 text/html 622109 2025-10-19T10:50:52 text/html 10056127 2025-11-30T10:35:03.962235 application/epub+zip 10060136 2025-11-30T10:34:56.614325 application/epub+zip 396863 2025-11-30T10:34:55.444269 application/epub+zip 10659778 2025-11-30T10:35:09.435222 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 10617385 2025-11-30T10:35:02.868231 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 590739 2025-11-30T10:34:53.220307 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 570840 2025-10-19T10:50:52 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16527 2025-11-30T10:35:09.590198 application/rdf+xml 18307 2025-11-30T10:34:55.669288 image/jpeg 3128 2025-11-30T10:34:55.557270 image/jpeg 10121767 2025-11-30T10:34:54.701308 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia