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Siberia To-Day

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS
By Frederick Ferdinand Moore
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The author records a first-person account of travel across Siberia during the chaotic postwar period, combining railway and horseback journeys, encounters with peasants, soldiers, political factions, and occupying forces, and visits to prisons, convicts’ settlements, and famine-stricken districts. He describes harsh climate and logistical challenges, the disruptive effects of revolution and Bolshevism on everyday life, the presence of foreign military and diplomatic actors, and regional strongmen. Episodic narrative, descriptive sketches, photographs, and editorial reflections are used to convey conditions on the ground and to argue for clearer policy and better understanding of the region.

ILLUSTRATIONS

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Siberian Types—When They Smile Less and Think More They Will Find Freedom Frontispiece
The American Army Mules Arrive in Vladivostok for Duty 24
Street Service in Vladivostok with Bay in Distance 24
An American Doughboy Helping Make Siberia “Safe for Democracy” 48
Night View of Vladivostok Harbor from Hill of City 48
Russian Soldiers Clearing the Track After a Wreck on the Trans-Siberian 100
Japanese Officers Talking with an American Officer 100
Ataman Semenoff, Chief of the Trans-Baikal Cossacks 158
Mongol and Tartar Descendants of Conquering Hordes with 1919 Model “Cars” 158
Siberians Celebrating the Signing of the Armistice 200
Room in House at Ekaterinburg where Czar and His Family are Reputed to Have Been Executed 200
An Example of Carving on a Typical Siberian House 230
Typical Russian Church in Cities of Siberia 230
Some American Railroad Men of the “Russian Railway Service” 250
Washing Clothes in Sixty-below-zero Weather 250