Rare Imperial Russian Railway Guide with Large Folding Map – 1899

Original pre-Revolutionary Russian publication:

“Sputnik Passazhira po Yugo-Vostochnym Zheleznym Dorogam”

(Passenger’s Companion to the South-Eastern Railways)

Issue I – Kozlov–Voronezh–Rostov Line

Published by the Society of the South-Eastern Railways.

Moscow, 1899.

A fascinating late-19th-century railway guide to the Russian Empire, describing the railway route, stations, towns, industry, commerce, history and places of interest along the Kozlov–Voronezh–Rostov line.

The book covers numerous locations and regions of the former Russian Empire, including Kozlov, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Nakhichevan-on-Don, Novocherkassk, the Don Cossack region and other railway stations and settlements.

Especially interesting for collectors of early railway history, cartography, urban history and Imperial Russian ephemera.

Contents:

352 numbered pages

16 pages of period advertising at the beginning

26 pages of advertising at the end

Numerous illustrations and photographs

Folding city plans

Railway and industrial illustrations

Extensive late-19th-century commercial advertising

Large folding color map of the South-Eastern Railways

The large railway map is particularly attractive, printed in several colors and showing an extensive network of railway lines, stations, towns and rivers. Among the locations visible on the map are Kharkov, Bakhmut, Mariupol, Taganrog and many others.

The advertisements are also historically interesting and include businesses, factories, photographers, wine merchants, musical instrument dealers and other commercial establishments of the period.

Size: approx. 12 × 16.5 cm (4.7 × 6.5 in).

Binding: Original publisher’s decorated hardcover binding.

Language: Russian, pre-revolutionary orthography.