Recollections of Siberia, in the Years 1840 and 1841

Altai Altai mountains Angarà animal appearance argali Baikal Barnaoul Baron Burates called Captain carriage Chinese cold considerable Cossacks course distance district East Siberia Ekaterinburg Emperor empire English establishment exiles expedition expense feet fifty frontier frozen gold governor-general ground Hedenström horses hospitality hundred pud hundred versts Icy Sea imagine immense inhabitants Irkutsk Irtysch journey Khan Khiva Kiakhta Kirghis knout labour lake LAKE BAIKAL Lama land latitude Léna live MAMMOTH merchants mines Moscow mountains neighbourhood Nertchynsk never Nijni officer Omsk Orenburg passed peasants perhaps persons Petersburg probably punishment quantity received residence river road Russian sand Selenga sent silver sledge snow sort Sparrow Hills Steppes summer Tatars Thibet thousand roubles thousand versts three hundred tion Tobolsk Tomsk Tonguses town travellers tribes Ural Ust-Kamenogorsk vast village whole wind winter Yakuts Yakutsk Yénisséi Yukaghires zolotnik