Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians / [Anon].

  • William Alexander
Date:
[1814?]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Picturesque representations of the dress and manners of the Russians / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    11/396
    P R E F A C E. The utility of such publications as the present has been sufficiently proved by the extensive sale of the larger editions ; and the approbation with which they have been honoured has evinced that the opinion the Pub- lisher had formed of their value was not ill-founded. This present work possesses all the advantages which the former ones embraced, and has the further merit of a rather more systematic arrangement, and of being much less expensive. The Russian empire is of an extent unknown to other modern nations, and hardly equalled by that of the Romans in the summit of their power. It embraces within its limits, nations the most various, with coun- tries and climates the most opposite. Its extent from north to south is fifty degrees of latitude, if we reckon to the north pole, while its length from west to east is more than one hundred and seventy degrees of longitude- It touches the Frozen Ocean of the north ; and borders upon the warm climates of Persia, Japan, and China, on the south. It occupies more than a seventh part of the known continent, and almost a twenty-sixth part of the whole globe