In Statistics the name of Arsenyef is an authority.  Many valuable contributions are to be found in Stepanof’s Description of the Government of Yennissci, and in various Russian periodicals; especially in the annals of several Bureaus, which are from time to time published by the government, and the Statistical Annuals edited by the Academy.

The literature of Travels cannot well be very rich at the present day, in a country where travelling to foreign lands meets with so many difficulties; and where even travels in the interior are at least not made very easy.  To the most valuable productions in the first department belong:  Norof’s Journey to the Holy Land, St. Pet. 1838; Davidof’s to Greece and Italy; Demidof’s to Moldavia and Wallachia; Korf’s to Persia; Wcewolodski to the East and through Europe; Gretsch to the Western countries of Europe, etc.  Two collections of old travels, viz. one containing those made by Russians to foreign countries, among which is the description of a journey to the Holy Land in the twelfth century; another comprising the accounts of foreigners who travelled in Russia in olden times; have also recently been published.

Modern works of travels in Russia have been written by A. Demidof, Baer, Boethlingk, Glagolyef, Kavelin, and others.  Most of these journeys were made for certain scientific purposes.  Mouravyef’s Pilgrimage to the holy places of Russia must be classified rather as a work of religion.

And here a short survey of this latter branch of Russian literature may naturally be subjoined.  To it belong the other works of the writer just mentioned; who is attached to his own church with an almost fanatical enthusiasm.  They are, first, a History of the Greek Church; secondly, Letters on the Greek Church Service.  An elaborate History of the Russian Patriarchate, published a few years ago, is ascribed to the bishop Philarete, a clergyman who is said to have shown an immoderate zeal in making proselytes in the Baltic provinces.  A biographical History of the Russian Saints, by Yeristof, belongs also here.  Of theological science there can hardly be a trace, in a country where all free investigation in exegetical matters is cut off.  Theological literature is entirely confined to synodal orations and some ascetic writings.  The spirit of the present age in Russia is strictly orthodox; and the monocracy of the Greek Church is the great object for which clergy and laity exert themselves; especially in the Baltic provinces.  Among sermons, those of Innocenz, vicar of the metropolitan of Kief, are much admired.

Literary history has recently been a favourite branch.  Polevoi, Gretsch, Schevyrof, Maximovitch, Nadeshdin, Nikitenko; and, in respect to languages and antiquities, Kalaidovitch, Vostokof and Koppen, the latter of German extraction, and mentioned in the preceding period; are the names which have most weight in these matters.