Excerpt from Through Russia: From St. Petersburg to Astrakhan and the Crimea

In placing these volumes before the public, it will perhaps not be amiss to preface them with a few words.

My daughter and myself left London with the intention of studying the Art collections contained in the museums of Dresden, Berlin, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg, and perhaps Moscow; and of then finding our way down the Danube, and, via Constantinople, Smyrna, and the Piraeus, to Borne, where we designed to winter.

We were, however, induced to make a slight alteration in our plans. During the month we spent in Moscow, we got so thoroughly interested in Russia and its people, that we did not like the idea of retracing our steps without seeing more of them. "All roads lead to Rome." Why not descend the Volga, and cross the Crimea?

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