Identifier: russianroadtochi00bateuoft (find matches)
Title: The Russian road to China
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Bates, Lindon Wallace, 1883-1915
Subjects: Trans-Siberian railroad Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel China -- Description and travel
Publisher: Boston Houghton Mifflin company

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k and forth, goingoff sometimes explosively like fireworks. Then fol-low the special events and the individual messages.At last these are all detailed. Now come invitationsfrom various men to visit their houses Will thegaspadine come? — The gaspadine must see thecity. — Da I da!* echoes the group. Varlakoff goes out for his stick and overcoat.The wool-merchant gets into his fleece-lined shuba.He achieves the feat by the usual Siberian method.Putting the garment over his head, he pushes hisarms through the sleeves, and gradually strugglesand writhes up into it as one gets into a wet bathing-suit. Alexsimevich finishes his fourth glass of tea,lights one of the Hazans cigarettes, and worms hisway also into his deerskin greatcoat. Then out wego into the bright sunlight and the snow-coveredstreets. The houses of the Russian quarter of Urga wereonly glimpsed in the dusk of last night. We havedaylight upon them now. Squat whitewashed build-ings they are, with neatly paned windows and big
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Oh THE CITY OF THE REBORN GOD 223 square chimneys. Across the mounds and hillocksof a broad street is the one-storied Russian Club,where one may drink vodka, play billiards or cards,and while away the winter evenings. Further on isa row of shops. The bearded owners stand behindtheir counters, dressed in belted Mongol shuhas andRussian fur caps. The doors to all the shops areopen, that the Mongols, perplexed with knobs, maynot take their trade elsewhere. Enameled kettles arehanging in festoons down the walls. The shelvesare crowded with bolts of vivid-colored cotton clothsto be sewed into shuhas by the Mongols who ridein to buy. There are big cases of sweetmeats, Mos-cowski caramels, acceptable offerings to the gro-tesque dokchits on the family shrines. Russianmonopoly tobacco is there, in stamped paperpackets for the delectation of Muscovites and Bu-riats who have the taste and the means, and vil-lainous South-China tobacco and snuff for nativepurchasers. One can get vodka almost as b

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