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This work is not to be regarded as an authority on political, military or social questions connected with that vast empire, which, to most Englishmen, is a sealed book, for it has been chiefly compiled from rough, and hitherto unpublished notes, casually jotted down during my travels throughout European and Asiatic Russia. These wanderings amount in the aggregate to over 50,000 miles, and I may therefore, perhaps, claim to speak with some authority on the conditions of life in a country where I have passed, with intervals, nearly four years of my life.
Thus, I have travelled, on various occasions, from Pekin to Moscow (before the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway), from Petersburg to Bombay (via Little Russia, the Caucasus, Persia, and Baluchistan), and from Paris to New York "by land" which latter journey (hitherto unaccomplished) took me from Moscow to the Bering Straits. I have also (by special desire of the Imperial Government) twice visited Siberia in order to investigate its penal methods, these tours of inspection including the famous silver mines of Nertchinsk, and prisons on the island of Sakhalin. Previously to this, Mr. George Kennan, the American traveller, had horrified the civilized world with his account of the sufferings of Siberian exiles, and my journeys of inspection were undertaken with the sole object of verifying this gentleman's statements, which, however, I was unable to do, the result of my inquiries being as favourable as Mr. Kennan's were the reverse.
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This work is not to be regarded as an authority on political, military or social questions connected with that vast empire, which, to most Englishmen, is a sealed book, for it has been chiefly compiled from rough, and hitherto unpublished notes, casually jotted down during my travels throughout European and Asiatic Russia. These wanderings amount in the aggregate to over 50,000 miles, and I may therefore, perhaps, claim to speak with some authority on the conditions of life in a country where I have passed, with intervals, nearly four years of my life.
Thus, I have travelled, on various occasions, from Pekin to Moscow (before the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway), from Petersburg to Bombay (via Little Russia, the Caucasus, Persia, and Baluchistan), and from Paris to New York "by land" which latter journey (hitherto unaccomplished) took me from Moscow to the Bering Straits. I have also (by special desire of the Imperial Government) twice visited Siberia in order to investigate its penal methods, these tours of inspection including the famous silver mines of Nertchinsk, and prisons on the island of Sakhalin. Previously to this, Mr. George Kennan, the American traveller, had horrified the civilized world with his account of the sufferings of Siberian exiles, and my journeys of inspection were undertaken with the sole object of verifying this gentleman's statements, which, however, I was unable to do, the result of my inquiries being as favourable as Mr. Kennan's were the reverse.
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