From Paris to Pekin over Siberian Snows A Narrative of a Journey by Sledge over the Snows of European Russia and Siberia, by Caravan Through Mongolia, Across the Gobi Desert and the Great Wall, and by Mule Palanquin Through China to Pekin

CHAPTER II.

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ST. PETERSBURG TO MOSCOW.

Letters of recommendation for Siberia--M. Pfaffius, frontier commissary at Kiachta--Russian music--Arrival at Moscow 19