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To The Great Ocean Trans-Siberian Railway by Harmon Tupper w dust jacket
To The Great Ocean Trans-Siberian Railway By Harmon Tupper
536 Pages
The taming of Siberia and the building of the Trans-Siberian Railway
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket (has plastic protective covering) (Dust jacket shows some wear)
WITH Photographs
Copyright 1965
CONTENTS
I. Introduction to Siberia3
II. The Early Empire-Builders24
III. Yankee with a Vision42
IV. "It Is Time, It Is High Time!"67
V. Enter Sergius Witte86
VI. The Spanning of the Steppe100
VII. Into the Heart of Siberia122
VIII. Convicts and Exiles135
IX. Setbacks and Advances169
X. The Paris of Siberia192
XI. Old Man Baikal216
XII. The Manchurian Coup234
XIII. Ballyhoo and Reality245
XIV. By Rail and Water to the Great Ocean284
XV. Ordeal in the Orient319
XVI. The Trans-Siberian Comes of Age336
XVII. Chaos367
XVIII. The New Siberia406
Appendices:
A. Partial List of Place Names Adopted by the Board on Geographic Names471
B. Chronology of the Conquest of Siberia474
C. Chronology of the Trans-Siberian Railway476
D. Description of Steam Locomotives on the Trans-Siberian Railway478
E. Table of Equivalents480
Acknowledgments483
Bibliography 493
Sources of Illustrations517
Index519
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Two yamshchiki, or post-road drivers11
Passenger sledges and posthouse12
An old Russian inn16
A ferry on the Yenisei18
Yermak Timofeyevich, conqueror of "Sibir"25
Count Muravyev-Amurski32
Alexander II35
Perry McDonough Collins 43
Residence of the governor-general48
Goldi women and child56
Goldi shaman and assistant57
Pipe-smoking Goldi belle58
Alexander III 70
Military caravan on the Amur74
Steel bridge over the Ob River75
Nicholas II in old Russian court dress84
Sergius Yulyevich Witte89
Anatoli N. Kulomzin96
Constantine Ya. Mikhailovski102
Construction site103
Laying ties in central Siberia104
The next step : laying rails104
Construction scene105
Robert L. Jefferson 108
A town street in tsarist times117
Nicholas P. Mezheninov125
Sod-hut winter quarters of the convicts126
Interior of the hut at night127
Typical curves of the railway133
A Siberian criminal convict138
A Siberian 139
Convict chained to a wheelbarrow140
Executioner with piet141
Sketch of a criminal convict143
A branded brodyaga144
"Politicals" living in Siberian exile145
Five murderers of their husbands146
Exiles at the "Monument of Tears"148
Convicts, exiles, and followers on the march148
Prison barge of 1900149
Interior of an 151
George Kennan in Cossack dress163
Orest P. Vyazemski171
Goldi village along the Amur172
Goldi men and a boy173
Dr. Henry Lansdell in Gilyak costume174
Convict-workers' camp176
Prince Michael I. Khilkov180
Alexander N. Pushechnikov181
A winter view of Irkutsk183
A church of Old Believers 186
John Foster Fraser195
Irkutsk: old wooden houses196
Irkutsk: The Drama Theater198
Wooden sidewalks in Irkutsk199
Irkutsk: the Museum of Regional History204
Irkutsk: mansion built by a rich merchant205
The bibliophile Gennadius V. Yudin208
Harry de Windt garbed for Siberia210
Tomsk boat landing213
Lake Baikal: Cape Burkhai217
The icebreaking train ferry Baikal226
The Angara229
Inauguration of the Chinese Eastern Railway 241
Work camps along the Chinese Eastern243
Landslide!247
A representative wooden bridge250
"The Usual Accident on the Great Siberian Railway"252
The Reverend Dr. Francis E. Clark253
Waiting passengers254
Some "fifth-class people" 255
Typical small station256
Oyash water tower57
"Off the line," in Transbaikalia28
Achinsk station in the 1890s260
Station at Krasnoyarsk260
Library section in the dining car 267
Church car at a wayside stop268
Interior of the "ambulatory basilica"268
The Great Siberian Railway Easter egg and train270
First-class compartment in the State Express271
Deluxe salon carriages272 & 273
Annette Meakin and her mother277
View of the Trakt today291
Central Siberian village292
A contemporary log house293
Little girl selling berries in paper cones294
A contemporary muzhik lounging on a telega295
Irkutsk: the Hotel Min 1901301
Goldi hunter 307
Another view of the caravan307
Siberian river boat309
The Grand Hotel at Blagoveshchensk315
Steamers laid up for the winter317
Picture-posing before a stern-wheeler 318
Alexander I. Yugovich321
Execution Day at Tsitsihar353
Decapitated heads of hunghutzes353
Emigrant train, with stationmaster361
Camouflaged car of the Czech Legion374
The Orl("Little Eagle")376
Major General William S. Graves379
General Gregory M. Semenov380
Vice Admiral Alexander V. Kolchak381
Russian civil war refugees401
Silver-painted statue of Stalin423
Station at Taiga434
Irkutsk station435
The old station at Mariinsk436
The new, adjoining Mariinsk station436
Pajamas, a favorite traveling costume437
Passengers at a pushcart buffet437
Soft-drink stand on station platform437
The line-up at food stalls438
Boiled-water taps at practically every station439
Irkutsk : the Central Hotel442
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Lorenzo Taft and daughter444
Irkutsk: former residence of the governor-general445
Irkutsk: the Church of the Holy Cross446
Irkutsk: Kirov Square447
The old and the new in Irkutsk448
Conventional summer ferries449
A side road at Listvyanka449
Mongolian delegation at Lake Baikal451
A lake freighter at Port Baikal452
Steam tug at Port Baikal452
A P-36 steam locomotive 454
Eight-axle N-8 electric locomotive454
An E-723 2-8-0 locomotive455
An antique E Class455
Car attendant and the author at Sverdlovsk457
Dining car on the Moscow-Vladivostok express458
The Raketa ("Rocket") hydrofoil 465
Interior of the hydrofoil465
Siberian youngsters on the "Rocket"466
Buryat boy467
LIST OF MAPS maps by Samuel Bryant
Route of the Great Siberian and the Chinese Eastern
Railwaysfront endleaf
Geographical Sectors of the Trans-Siberian Railway87
The West Siberian Sectortor 101
The Mid-Siberian Sector123
The Ussuri Line170
The Transbaikal Sector and the Circumbaikal Loop182
The Chinese Eastern Railway, with Connecting Link to Ussurisk and Vladivosto 320
The Circumbaikal Sector338
The Amur Line, with Connecting Link to Western Terminus of the Chinese Eastern Railway369
The Trans-Siberian Railway and Principal Extensions Todayback endleaf
The conquest of Siberia and the spanning of 6000 miles "To the Great Ocean" - the Pacific goal of tsarist expansion - constitutes one of the greatest epics in history. Indeed, the taming of Siberia and the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway roughly parallel the winning of the American West.
For anyone who still thinks of Siberia as a bleak emptiness, this book and its more than 135 photographs will be a revelation. Siberia's treasures and awesome natural forces, the tapestry of its colorful and often violent history, the dynamic vigor of its pioneers, the tragedy of its convicts and exiles, the astonishing social life of its rich merchant and gold-miner families, the bizarre variety of its half-savage natives, roving cutthroats, and rough-and-ready inhabitants of its wide-open towns - reminiscent in a Slavic way of the Klondike or Dodge City - these form the stunning backdrop for the thousands of men who fought from the Urals to the Pacific to harness a wild and unfamiliar immensity of land with bands of steel. Here are the intrepid, bearded engineers, the laborers in their squalid huts, the Chinese coolies, Italian masons, and chained prisoners who bent a virgin land to their will and, in the process, laid the foundation upon which industrialized Russia-in-Asia was to rise. Here too are Perry McDonough Collins, the farseeing adventure-prone Yankee who proposed Siberia's first railway in 1857; Finance Minister Sergius Witte, who strong-armed backward Russia into a new economic age; elegantly goateed Prince Khilkov, "the American" who matched his powers against Baikal, the world's deepest and perhaps most eccentric lake; early American, British, and other foreign travelers on the Trans-Siberian - all brought unforgettably to life. And finally, here is the story of the New Siberia and of the modern Trans-Siberian, still the longest continuous railway on earth.
For everyone interested in Russia, in an almost incredible Siberia, in the far eastern intrigues of the Great Powers, in railways, travel, travelers' accounts of daily life and odd customs in Siberia, in sheer galloping adventure, here at last is a book - superbly researched and masterfully narrated - that meets the challenge of this fascinating chapter in a history carried up to our own times.
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