AN ILLUSTRATED DESCRIPTION OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE; EMBRACING ITS GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES, POLITICAL DIVISIONS, PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS, POPULATION, CLASSES, GOVERNMENT, RESOURCES, COMMERCE,
ANTIQUITIES, RELIGION, PROGRESS IN EDUCATION, LITERATURE, ART,
AND SCIENCE, MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, HISTORIC SUMMARY, ETC.,
FROM THE LATEST AND THE MOST AUTHENTIC SOURCES.
By ROBERT SEARS.
EMBELLISHED WlTH NUMEROUS ENGRAVINGS,
AND
Maps of European and Asiatic Russia.
1855.
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