Excerpt from Russia's New Era: Being Notes, Impressions and Experiences Personal, Political, Commercial and Financial of an Extended Tour in the Empire of the Tsar, With Statistical Tables, Portraits, Snapshots and Other Illustrations Great misapprehension and many mistaken notions have prevailed in this country of Russia and her people. But now King Edward and the Tsar have met: England and Russia have fraternised. The mists of prejudice are clearing off and old estrangement seems an evil dream. Misunderstandings in the past were largely due to ignorance - to fanciful suspicions and to mutual distrust. Yet Englishmen long resident in Russia have told that nowhere else in Europe are our countrymen so sure of hospitable treatment and of personal esteem. Nor have those well-informed witnesses been backward in acknowledging their admiration of the Russian's fine qualities, or faltered in their confidence that Russia will justify in time the highest expectations of her friends. Whilst the misunderstandings spoken of endured, Russia was certainly the victim of misrepresentation - mainly on political grounds - by certain journals in this country. Any suggestions that Russia affords promising openings for the investment of English capital would have been scouted in some quarters as either ridiculous or most objectionable. Yet it is certain that English enterprise might be worse and less profitably employed than in some of the numerous openings which it is one object of this book to point out as existing in the land of the Tsar. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.