. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. phical Society, with an extremely interesting ethnologicalcollection, as well as almost complete collections of the birdsand animals of the district. From its telegraph office mes-sages can be sent to any part of the world in any language, butI must add that a telegram sent to me from London on Mondaywas only delivered at midday on Friday. There is a perfectlyorganised telephone service, and the outlying manufactories, one SIBERIAN CIVILISATION H7 of them as much as sixty m
. All the Russias: travels and studies in contemporary European Russia, Finland, Siberia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. phical Society, with an extremely interesting ethnologicalcollection, as well as almost complete collections of the birdsand animals of the district. From its telegraph office mes-sages can be sent to any part of the world in any language, butI must add that a telegram sent to me from London on Mondaywas only delivered at midday on Friday. There is a perfectlyorganised telephone service, and the outlying manufactories, one SIBERIAN CIVILISATION H7 of them as much as sixty miles away, are all connected with thecity by telephone. A fire-extinguishing service is excellentlyequipped with an English steam fire-engine among other appar-atus, and I saw some smart drill. Finally, besides an imposingcathedral, Irkutsk boasts no fewer than twenty Orthodoxchurches, one Roman Catholic and one Lutheran chapel, twosynagogues, and two monasteries, for in Siberia a greater re-ligious tolerance exists than in Russia. That is not a bad listfor a town which, until a few months ago, could only be reached. The Technical School, Irkutsk. by an exhausting journey of several weeks, driving at full speedday and night. There is an air of well-being about the place, however, whichsays more than any catalogue of facts. I have seldom been moresurprised than when, on the evening of my arrival, I started outto make a few purchases. I wanted some sardines and sugarand similar supplies, and I found myself in a shop which for size,arrangement, and variety of stock would compare with those ofthe West End of London, except, perhaps, such exceptional pur-veyors of luxuries as Morells and Fortnum & Masons. NextI wanted some photographic materials, and the first thing thatcaught my eye was a complete assortment of Zeiss lenses, of thelatest pattern—the most expensive lenses in the market. Two 148 ALL THE RUSSIAS stationers shops and a chemists were certainly equal to theaverage of s
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