Du Kremlin au Pacifique by Georges Ducrocq
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"Du Kremlin au Pacifique" by Georges Ducrocq is a travelogue written in the early 20th century. It likely traces a journey from Moscow across Siberia and Mongolia to the Pacific, blending vivid landscape writing with ethnographic sketches and encounters by rail, river, and road. Expect portraits of pilgrims, émigrés, soldiers, indigenous peoples, and frontier towns set against the Volga, the Urals, the taiga, Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, the Buryat and Mongol worlds, the
Amur, and Khabarovsk. The opening of the work moves from a sensory portrait of Moscow—its fervent devotions, Kremlin memories of Tatar rule, and bell‑filled skyline seen from Sparrow Hills—into the eastbound journey on the Trans‑Siberian with a gruff young consul, his spirited wife Katia, their children, and other travelers, as the train crosses the Volga and the Urals toward Siberia’s emigrants, chained convicts, and open steppe. The narrative lingers in the taiga, Irkutsk, and on Lake Baikal, where villages, night crossings, music, and storms frame everyday Siberian life. Following the Irkout, it sketches Cossack homesteads and Buryat communities—Buddhist rites, horsemen, and camp cookfires—before riding with caravan guides onto the Mongolian plateau to the Kosso‑Gol monastery and a brilliant festival of lamas, masks, and evening processions. The route then swings through Transbaikalia and down the Amur by steamer amid settlers, soldiers, and Asian passengers, with drifting islands and luminous nights. At Khabarovsk, a martial town at a great confluence, family vignettes and indigenous Goldes fishers appear, and the section closes on the Lower Amur’s bleak autumn and salmon fisheries, breaking off as a young officer’s wife arrives to settle in. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Ducrocq, Georges, 1874-1927 |
|---|---|
| LoC No. | 67055201 |
| Title | Du Kremlin au Pacifique |
| Original Publication | Paris: Honoré Champion, 1905. |
| Credits | Laurent Vogel, Pierre Lacaze and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | French |
| LoC Class | DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland |
| Subject | Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 78904 |
| Release Date | Jun 21, 2026 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 739 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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