The British are traveling around Russia. Botta notes of British travelers of the XIX century

In this book, the first in Russian publishes travel notes of three English travelers of the XIX century.

Outstanding mathematician and physicist William Spottiswood (1825-1883) in 1856 acquired in Kazan an outlandish vehicle for the Englishman-Tarantas and drove on it in European Russia from Moscow to Astrakhan, visited cities and villages, looked at the Buddhist monastery. Despite the fact that shortly before this ended the Crimean war, in which the birthday of the traveler opposed our country, the Englishman was accepted with exceptional cordiality and helped him in everything.

The famous ecologist John Crombi Brown (1808-1895) spent several years in Russia. Once, friends invited him to go to the Urals to study local forests and mountain plants, but he chose to make the so -called “imaginary journey” there and wrote an exciting book about this.

Engineer and metallurgist James Cartmell Ridley (1844-1914), together with participants in the International Geological Congress in the summer of 1897, visited the territory of present-day Bashkortostan, Chelyabinsk and Sverdlovsk regions, as well as the Perm Territory and then published notes in which he fascinatingly described life and fascinatingly. Modelian morals