ILLUSTRATIONS
| A Maid of Old Muscovy From a painting by Venuga |
Frontispiece |
| Yermak’s Expedition to Sibir, attacked by the Tatars From a painting by Surikova |
8 |
| Church of St. Basil, Moscow Ivan the Terrible blinded its architect that he might never duplicate the masterpiece |
20 |
| 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 |
| A Wayside Temple | 178 |
| A Mongol Belle and her Yurta | 186 |
| A Zabaikalskaia Buriat | 186 |
| A Mongol “Black Man” | 206 |
| Temple of Gigin, Urga | 222 |
| Temple in the Urga Lamasery | 228 |
| A Prostrating Pilgrimage | 234 |
| A Grand Lama | 244 |
| Chinese Mandarin | 256 |
| Gigin, the Living Buddha | 256 |
| Chinese Archway, Urga Maimachen | 262 |
| The Great Wall | 270 |
| The Kremlin, Moscow | 282 |
| Russian Types—Dragoon, Constable | 292 |
| Street Scenes in Moscow (The Tverskaia Gate, Loubianskaia Place) |
302 |
| Russian Types—Peddler, Policeman | 316 |
| The Miracle of Attila’s Repulse (From the painting by Raphael in the Vatican) |
332 |
| On the Road to the Ming Tombs | 342 |
| The Glory is departed | 360 |
| The Bridge and Tablets in Pei-hai | 368 |
| Hsuen-wu Gate, Peking | 374 |
| Peking, where the Allies’ Main Assault was made | 380 |
| Summer Palace of the Emperor | 388 |
| Map of Asia, showing Route from Moscow to Peking | 392 |