ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that travellers to Russia are so carefully shepherded that they cannot get a true impression of conditions in the country. The only limits to investigation are one's knowledge of the language, and the physical difficulties of travelling in a country where accommodation and transport are restricted and primitive off the main avenues of communication. Many people seem to think it dangerous to travel in Russia. Food is a serious preoccupation to the traveller. The most satisfactory of the traveller's various temporary habitations are the trains. "International" cars are only attached to a few expresses on the most important lines, but what the traveller loses in comfort by a "soft" or "hard" carriage he makes up by coming into contact with more people. Although railway fares are low, few people can afford a berth in the "international", unless travelling at the public expense.
