Books by George Kennan

Colorful vignettes from an 1860s expedition tell of the land and its people, from seven weeks aboard a Russian ship to a Cossack wedding to celestial wonders of the North.

A fascinating collection of the travel writings of George Kennan, America's leading expert on Russia in the late 19th century.

The American journalist and expert on Russia George Kennan (1854-1924) went to Siberia to examine the infamous tsarist penal system there, and this vivid account was published in two volumes in 1891. In Volume 1 Kennan visits the holding prison of Tyumen and talks to political exiles.

"The importance of [the 1913] report for the world lies primarily in the light it casts on the excruciating situation prevailing today... to reveal to people of this age how much of today's problem has deep roots and how much does not. It will be easier to think of solutions when such realities are kept in mind."-George F. Kennan (from the Introduction)