Identifier: travelogues08holmuoft (find matches)
Title: Travelogues;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, b. 1870
Subjects: Argentina -- Description and travel Chile -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel South America -- Description and travel Iguassu Falls
Publisher: Chicago, Travelogue Bureau
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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O Q S THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY 279 magnificent as one views it from the belfry of a church, butdisillusion awaits the traveler below. I cannot understandwhy photographs should make the city look so trim whenm reality it is so soiled and dingy and unkempt. Russia is always striving for effect, and here in Irkutskwe get the same impression as in St. Petersburg, of a citybuilt to order — designed to impress the observer. The samestone walls of stucco, the same marble pillars of staff,
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THE CATHEDRAL tne wide streets and the endless avenues, still unpaved andinsistently suggestive of the wilderness of which they latelyformed a part. Space is the cheapest thing in northernAsia. The Russians have been prodigal of space in layingout their cities. The Orthodox Cathedral is huge enough tosatisfy the needs of a city four times the present size ofIrkutsk ; but the critical tourist must not forget that Irkutskwill in the near future quadruple its population. 28o THE TRANS-SIBERIAN RAILWAY A great city should have a museum. The governmenthas seen to it that Irkutsk does not lack one. Within wefind one floor devoted to natural history and one to ethno-logical collections ; but the fine arts have not yet appeared inMid-Siberia. There are also an imposing theater, severalofficial palaces, many fine private residences, and in the mainstreet an astounding row of big department-stores, in one ofwhich we photographed an effective array of spring bonnets

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