Traces the successive stages of the growth of Asiatic Russia, and describes the policies which have brought it about. More than two hundred authorities were consulted, including Russian primary sources and British official documents.
Alexis Sidney Krausse, 1859-1904, was a prolific writer and journalist and author of numerous books dealing with both social and political issues of his day, including The Far East: its History and its Question (1900), The Story of the Chinese Crisis (1900), and Starving London: The Story of Three Weeks' Sojourn Among the Destitute (1886).
