Recollections of Tartar Steppes and Their InhabitantsFirst Published in 1972. Forming part of the 'Russia through European Eyes' this text offers a series of letters written by Mrs Atkinson about her adventures and observation of the Kirghis female society in Kirghis Steppe and include recollections of Tomsk, Barnaoul, Altin-Koll, Zmeinogorsk, the Yenissey River, Irkoutak, and Petersburg from February 1848 to December 1853. |
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
CHAPTER II | 16 |
CHAPTER III | 39 |
Leave BarnaoulArrive at BiskThe Colonels FamilyA Ball Dress | 48 |
CHAPTER V | 108 |
CHAPTER VI | 123 |
CHAPTER VII | 138 |
CHAPTER VIII | 174 |
CHAPTER XI | 239 |
CHAPTER XII | 250 |
CHAPTER XIII | 256 |
CHAPTER XIV | 284 |
CHAPTER XV | 295 |
CHAPTER XVII | 323 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 333 |
CHAPTER XIX | 343 |
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