Identifier: russianroadtochi00bateuoft (find matches)
Title: The Russian road to China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bates, Lindon Wallace, 1883-1915
Subjects: Trans-Siberian railroad Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel China -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rday and of to-morrow.Unto to-day belongs the quaintness of the cavalcadethat passes to and fro along its track. Over thefrozen snows of winter and the rocky trails of sum-mer there plod horse and ox and camel, sleigh andwagon and cart, —a broken line of men and beasts.Russian posts thunder past with galloping horses,three abreast. Bands of Cossacks convoy theguarded camel-trains of heavy mail for China. Onemeets troops of boyish recruits, singing lustily inchorus on the tramp northward, and Mongol cartsand flat-featured Buriats on their little shaggyponies, sleepy wooden villages, forests, steppes,swamps, frozen river-courses, mountain passes. Through the kaleidoscope of races and peoplesone moves in a world-forgotten life, a procession ofthe ages. On the threshold of Siberia the traveler hasturned back in manner, in ways of thought, ingovernment, in everything, to the past. Go intoone of these cities, — you are in the Germany of1849, with the embers still hot of the fire lighted
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CHURCH OF ST. BASIL, MOSCOW(Ivan the Terrible blinded its architect that he might never duplicate the masterpiece) THE PATH OF THE COSSACK 21 by the republican movement of the young men andthe industrials. The seeming chance of victory haspassed them by. The iron hand is over all. Onehears of Siberian Carl Schurzes, fugitives to Amer-ica and to Switzerland, of the month-lived ChitaRepublic, of the row of gallows at Verhneudinsk,of the bloody assizes at Krasnoyarsk. It is as if one lived when citizens gathered inexcited groups in the Forum to discuss the newsfrom Philippi; or as if, from the broken masonryof the Tuileries, there stepped out into breathingactuality the five hundred Marseillaises who knowhow to die, fronting the red Swiss before thepalace of Louis, the King. Here is the reality offriends in hiding, of files of soldiers at each railway-station, of police-examined passports without whichone cannot sleep a night in town, of arms forbid-den, meetings forbidden, books forbidd

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