Table of Contents

PREFACE & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: HEAVEN AND HELL; LANDSCAPE OF EXTREMES; THE HUMDRUM AND THE BIZARRE; 1. Cradle of Civilizations: Bronze-Age Cultures; The Scyths; Turkic and Mongol States; The Khanate of Sibir; Indigenes before Russian Colonization; Yermak's Conquest; 2. A Frontier Beyond: The Urals and Yekaterinburg; Travel on the Sibirsky Trakt; Beyond the Watershed of Imagination; Stroganovs, Demidovs and the Industrial Heritage of Nevyansk; Yekaterinburg: Minerals and Mining; A Walk through Yekaterinburg; The Romanov Murders and Church-on-Blood; From Voznesenskaya Gorka to the Opera; 3. Tyumen: Dallas in Siberia; From Fortress to Metropolis; Holy Trinity Monastery: Missionaries and Indigenous Colonization; Towards Historical Square and Central Square; Rasputin: The Mystic from Pokrovskoe; 4. Tobolsk: From "Sodom in the Taiga" to a Cultural Heartland; The Kremlin Complex; Banishing the Bell; Siberian Administration; Outside the Kremlin: Decembrists and Dostoevsky; The Lower Town (86); Abalak and the "Pious Work."; 5. To the Frozen Ocean and Stalin's Railway of Death: Khanty-Mansiysk: Boom Town (96); Berezovo and Salekhard; The Railway of Death; 6. Omsk and the Baraba Steppe: Revolution and Civil War; Exploring Omsk; The Baraba Steppe; 7. Over the Top: The Northern Sea Route: Exploring Siberia's Seas; The Second Kamchatka Expedition; Nordenskjold's Expeditions; Joseph Wiggins and Helen Peel; Nansen and the Drifters; 8. Novosibirsk and the Trans-Siberian Railway: Building Russia's Railway; Novosibirsk: Bridge over the Ob; Around Novosibirsk; The Mammoths of Akademgorodok; 9. The Altai Region and Republic: Mystics, Mountains and Nomads: Barnaul and the Altai; Industrial Heritage; Prospekt Lenina: Urban Archaeology; The Altai Republic: Spiritual Landscape; Altai Nationalism; The Katun River and Mount Belukha; 10. The Yenisey River: From Steppes to the FrozenTundra: Khoomei: Throat Singing and Cultural Identity; The Tuvans and their Burial Complexes; The Yenisey River North; Khakassia and the Steppe Cultures; Krasnoyarsk; North to the Arctic; Yeniseysk: Churches and Fairs; Turukhansk: Saints and Exiles; 11. Irkutsk: The "Paris of Siberia": Foreign Visitors; Central Irkutsk: Monuments, Museums and Monasteries; Remembering the Decembrists; 12. Lake Baikal: Siberia's Sacred Sea: The World's Largest Freshwater Lake; Irkutsk to Listvyanka; The Circumbaikal Railway; Olkhon Island: Where Spirits and Cultures Meet; 13. -The Archipelago of Exile: Magadan: House of the Dead; The Gulags: Company Town; FURTHER READING; INDEX OF HISTORICAL & LITERARY,NAMES; INDEX OF PLACES & LANDMARKS

About the Author

A. J. Hayward is a journalist and author whose published works includes guidebooks and articles on Russia, Austria, and Germany, as well as short stories and translations.