The fact that I can combine articles on Russian life and culture with articles on travel in Russia in a single section is an indication of how rarely Victorians traveled to this land in the first place. Those travel articles that do exist make it clear that Russia was often an inhospitable place, treating travelers from outside the country with suspicion and a tangle of bureaucratic requirements. As our section on Russian Politics and Controversies demonstrates, relations between Russia and the rest of the world have long been strained. George Kennan's remarkable series on the Russian exile system of Siberia also helps us understand why Russia was not particularly popular with Victorian Britain or America.

How They Make Tea in Russia (Godey's, 1860)

Women in Russia (Demorest, 1872)

Christmas in the North (Demorest, 1873)

Christmas traditions in Scandinavia and Russia.

The Russians in the East, by George Towle (Atlantic Monthly, 1875)

The Begging Trade in Russia (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877)

Russian Imperial Finance (Illustrated London Almanack, 1878)

The Russians on the Bosphorus (Atlantic Monthly, 1878)

How Captain Burnaby Rode to Khiva, by L. Rough (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877)

A visit to Russia by "the strongest man in the British army."

Mr. Mackenzie Wallace's Sojourn in Russia, by Arthur Arnold (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1877)

A Russian Home, by A.A. Strange Butson (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1880)

A Peep at Schoolgirls in Eastern Siberia (Girl's Own Paper, 1882)

Children of All Nations: Russia and Poland, by L. Lobenhofer (Little Folks, 1883)

Passports, Police, and Post Office in Russia, by Isabel Hapgood (Atlantic Monthly, 1893)

Girl Life in Russia, by F. Toulman Smith (Girl's Own Paper, 1885)

A Word on Easter Eggs (Demorest, 1886)

A bit of the history of Easter eggs in Greece and Russia.

A Russian Wedding, by Frederick Hastings (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1887)

The Sons of the Steppe, by Henry Lansdell (Harper's Monthly, 1887B)

The Russian Police, by George Kennan (Century Magazine, 1889A)

A Russian Village: An Artist's Sketch, by Vassili Verestchagin (Harper's Monthly, 1889A)

Social Life in Russia, by the Vicomte Eugene Melchior de Vogue (Harper's Monthly, 1889A)

The Circassians (Pictorial Museum of Sport & Adventure, ca. 1890)

A Peep at a Russian Fair (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1890)

A Russian Summer Resort [Tzarskoe Selo], by Isabel Hapgood (Atlantic Monthly, 1893)

Easter in Little Russia, by Erica Glenton (Girl's Own Paper, 1894)

A Russian Courtship, by Jane Bowman (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1894)

A Summer Visit to Nova Zembla, by J. Russell-Jeaffreson (Windsor Magazine, 1899B)

An island off the coast of mainland Russia, between the Barents and the Kara seas. In 1873, Russia took the island and established huts and a six-month food supply to serve the needs of Russian and Norwegian walrus hunters, who might end up having to spend the long winter stranded on the island.

A Russian Girton, by Alder Anderson (Strand, 1901A)

The Women's University in St. Petersburg.

Eastertide in Russia, by the Rev. W. Durban (Girl's Own Paper, 1902)

See also

• Russia: Moscow & St. Petersburg

• Russia: Politics & Controversies

• Siberia