Description

Statisticheskoe obozrenie Sibiri (Statistical overview of Siberia) presents a wide range of information and scientific data on the different parts of Siberia. Mikhail Bakkarevich, a noted Russian linguist and government official during the reign of Alexander I (1801‒25), compiled the book from government records and, as he notes, other “verifiable” primary sources. This work takes a standard Russian approach in using subject categories within a systematic geographic presentation, such as carefully distinguishing the Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean from those that flow into the Pacific Ocean ...