Russia is in English schedule. European, Asian and American units in the reign of Catherine II

In addition to purely natural originality, the heads of the book with impressive clarity record the life and morals of indigenous peoples and nationalities, who have settled on the European, Asian and American lands of the vast Russian Empire.
Numerous graphic works collected by the author, illustrating individual regions of the country, are the central regions in the European part with Moscow and St. Petersburg, or the Asian possessions with Kamchatka and Chukotka, or completely retired to Russian influence in the second half of the XVIII century. No less vast territories in North-West America.
In this regard, interest is the very extensive graphic heritage of the third expedition of the famous English pioneer J. Cook, who studied the entire northern part of the Pacific region. Numerous maps and drawings created over all this time, from the nature of newly open lands, somehow revealing the natural world or the household specifics of the Far Eastern and American Russian possessions in the Catherine’s reign, first presented with the proper fullness.
No less significant in its generally artistic expressiveness is a whole series of English engravings, covering the expedition of D. Billings in the northeastern lands of Asian Russia. Almost all regions of the Russian Empire are found in the printed schedule posted on the pages of the English periodical
The relatively small section of the book is dedicated to costume scenic drawings on the "Russian theme" "of one of the largest theatrical artists of England.
The vast majority of the illustrations presented in the book are published for the first time. The proposed labor will be useful to both the widest circle of readers and specialists, he will complement the history of our country with little -known facts, as well as the drawings and engravings of the masters of the English graphic school