{"id":4053,"date":"2017-04-24T09:54:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T08:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connects.soton.ac.uk\/?p=4053"},"modified":"2017-04-24T09:54:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T08:54:34","slug":"crossing-siberia-to-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/southamptonconnects\/2017\/04\/24\/crossing-siberia-to-mongolia\/","title":{"rendered":"Crossing Siberia to Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Alumni Martin Kyrle (BA History, 1957) and Michael Roberts (BA General Arts, 1958) have published a book to mark the centenary of the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway, in 1916.<\/h2>\n<p><em>Jottings from the Trans-Siberian Railway<\/em>, tells the story of the pair\u2019s travels on an adventurous foray across Siberia to Mongolia.<\/p>\n<p>Their adventures include time in Moscow, where they visited the headquarters of the Orthodox Church, at Sergiev Posad, before embarking on the railway to Tobolsk \u2013 a town that boasts having the only stone kremlin in Siberia.<\/p>\n<p>In Irkutsk, the pair toured two mid-19th century houses formerly owned by aristocrats exiled for their part in the Decembrist revolt in 1825. They visited the Taltsy Open-Air Museum, took a trip on the Circum-Baikal railway and spent four days on an island in the lake. The lake is the deepest in the world and contains one-fifth of the world\u2019s fresh water. En route they stopped off to meet a shaman and receive his blessing.<\/p>\n<p>Explanations of Russian history appear alongside descriptions of numerous encounters from their trip upon one of arguably the most famous railways in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Kyrle and Michael Roberts.<br \/>\nHardback, 290pp, 220 colour photos, 3 maps.<br \/>\nPublished by Sarsen Press, Winchester, \u00a314.95.<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:martinkyrle1933@gmail.com\">Email for your copy.<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni Martin Kyrle (BA History, 1957) and Michael Roberts (BA General Arts, 1958) have published a book to mark the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[192],"class_list":["post-4053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-alumni","alumni_category-your-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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