About the book: year / The book of the famous French traveler Paul Labbé (1867–1943) published in Russian for the first time is devoted to a description of his trip in the summer of 1898. in the Volga region, the Southern Urals and Kazakhstan. Filled with vivid everyday scenes and valuable ethnographic observations, it represents an important source of European perception of the Russian hinterland at the end of the 19th century. For ethnographers, geographers, and a wide range of readers.