# The Russian road to China

Author: Bates, Lindon, Jr., 1883-1915

Genre: Category: Travel Writing

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77082

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Russian+road+to+China+Bates&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

An ancient way leads across northern Asia to the Chinese borderland. The steel of the great Siberian Railroad harnesses now the stretch which mounts the Urals, pierces the steppes, winds through the Altai foothills, and by cyclopean cuts and tunnels girdles Lake Baikal. From Verhneudinsk southward, it has remained as an ancient post-road leading through the Trans-Baikal highlands to the frontier garrison town of Kiahta. Over the Mongolian border at Maimachen, it has narrowed into a camel-trail threading the barren hills to the encampment of the Tatar hordes at holy Urga. Thence it strikes across the sandy wastes of Gobi, and passes the ramparts of the Great Wall of China, on its way towar...

## Chapters

- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-russian-road-to-china-77082/chapters/24/index.md)