Description

Zamechaniia o Sibiri (Observations on Siberia) is a political memoir that contains a wealth of wide-ranging information about Siberia in the early 18th century. The author, A.M. Karnilov, was a senator and former governor in both Irkutsk and Tobol’sk. Typical of other books published in this period that heralded Russian progress as well as the natural wealth of Siberia, the volume highlights the transformation of the region and the economic development effected by the Russian state. The author contends that Siberia is destined to be an important part ...