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The Russian road to China by Jr. Lindon Bates is a historical travel narrative written in the early 20th century. It traces the overland corridor from European Russia across Siberia and Mongolia to the Chinese frontier, blending on-the-spot travel with a sweeping history of Cossack conquest, caravan trade, and the coming of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The focus is the route’s geography, peoples, and politics—from the Urals and Lake Baikal to Urga, the Great Wall, and Peking. The tone mixes history, reportage, and geopolitical reflection. The opening of this work first sketches the “path of the Cossack,” showing how the fur trade, the Stroganovs’ ventures, and Yermak’s campaigns opened Siberia and led to pledging the new realm to Ivan the Terrible, then follows the push east to Yakutsk and the Pacific, the treaties that closed and reopened trade, and the great tea caravans through Kiahta and Urga. It argues that railways and war shifted Russia’s access to China, with the Manchurian rou
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