Baedeker in Port Arthur and Peking

In 1914 the world’s leading travel guides publisher Baedeker published the first edition of their guide to Russia which included chapters on Tehran, Port Arthur and Peking. The Russians still had a base at Port Arthur and the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway was just a couple of years away connecting Moscow to Peking,  so it made sense to have these inclusions. This edition published by Karl Baedeker of Leipzig was nearly 600 pages long and was presumably intended for those both visiting and travelling across Russia to either China or Persia by train.