Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of California and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Reprinted in part from the Outlook, the Standard and the Evening standard The pilgrim spirit.--The monstrous affront.--An apostle of dreams [Krijanich]--My friend Sobolof.--Russian travelling companions.--General Ivanoff.--The Cossack.--The steppe.--My Russian household.--Russia in travail.--Skóbeleff.--The ikon.--The "credo" of the moujik.--Vereschagin.--A Russian picnic.--Omsk.--A Siberian exile of 1800 [Kotzebue]--Siberia and the war.--Russia.--"Tania."--Kieff.--River travel in Russia.--Russia's northern gateway.--Archangle.--Warsaw: a retrospect.--A Polish aide-de-camp of Napoleon [Krasinski]--Tania's orthodoxy.--The song of the moujik.--Russia railway advance