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Excerpt from Boris in Russia: A Geographical ReaderIF a child learns from his geography that Russia is a vast country, covering one sixth of the land surface of the earth, and is inhabited by one hun dred and forty million people, more than half of them peasants who depend for their food and clothing upon the land which they hire from the government, the bare facts are soon forgotten; but if he sees these peasants working from dawn to dark, through the long summer days, to wrest from the soil enough food for the hard cold winter; if he travels over the great highways and sails down the long rivers, which for centuries were the chief means of transportation; if he visits the cities and sees the gay throngs of people, the historic buildings, the palaces, the cathedrals; he has an insight into the life and customs of the country which remains with him as a lasting impression.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Boris in Russia: A Geographical ReaderIF a child learns from his geography that Russia is a vast country, covering one sixth of the land surface of the earth, and is inhabited by one hun dred and forty million people, more than half of them peasants who depend for their food and clothing upon the land which they hire from the government, the bare facts are soon forgotten; but if he sees these peasants working from dawn to dark, through the long summer days, to wrest from the soil enough food for the hard cold winter; if he travels over the great highways and sails down the long rivers, which for centuries were the chief means of transportation; if he visits the cities and sees the gay throngs of people, the historic buildings, the palaces, the cathedrals; he has an insight into the life and customs of the country which remains with him as a lasting impression.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.