Russia

The 1914 edition of Baedeker's RUSSIA is justly famous as the last, best and one of the hardest-to-come-by guides to the empire and Manchuria

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'Baedeker has never failed me. Its description of Russian cities even though written more than half a century in the past is more accurate, more vivid, more complete and more revealing than will be found in any contemporary reference book. Nowhere will you so quickly discover that Russia's character as a nation was fully formed and mature long before 1917 and that Russian ways and institutions have changed far less than most would think despite the passage of time and the revolutions in government' Harrison Salisbury