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По Сѣверо-Западу Россіи. [With illustrations and maps

SLUCHEVSKY, Konstantin Konstantinovich. · 1897 · 206 pictures

Konstantin Sluchevsky's two-volume Russian travel account of the empire's north-west — the Baltic provinces, Finland, Belarusian and Novgorod lands — published in St Petersburg in 1897 for general readers following the author's official tours. The 206 plates and in-text blocks are wood engravings and halftones of town squares, gabled Hanseatic houses, brick fortresses, monasteries and Orthodox church exteriors, many in wide horizontal format with Cyrillic captions set beneath.

British Library · HMNTS 10292.t.27. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)