Excerpt from Russian Gazetteer and Guide: Being an Account of the Territorial Divisions and a Description of Over 300 of the Principal Towns and Cities of Russia, Finland and Siberia
Whatever changes of government may take place in the interval of writing this book and its publication will not affect its purpose of giving some idea of the component parts of the Russian Empire, its geographical divisions and their characteristics, natural resources and manufacturing industries, together with a description of all the leading towns that will serve alike as a guide to the traveller and a source of information to the student or correspondent. It has been prepared essentially for the man of business, and for that army of young men who are to-day getting ready to equip themselves for commercial relations with Russia after the war, and is therefore general and comparative in its facts and figures in order that they may be more easily grasped than mere statistical tables. Finland and Poland have been included, as no matter what their eventual destiny may be, their commercial relations will for some time, at least, be part of any plan of commercial investigation and enterprise in Russia.
Russia proper, as well as Finland and Poland, is divided into a number of provinces, which, when under one administration, are known as "governments," which is the general description of the various divisions of the Empire. In some few cases, more especially in Siberia, two or three provinces are combined in one government, and one division under the direct administration of Petrograd, but with unusual local autonomy, is known as the "Territory of the Cossacks."
The ten former Russian governments of Poland are all relatively small, the total area being less than England, and none of them more than about two-thirds the size of Wales. They are, however, more densely populated than any part of Russia.
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