Leather, worked and not, 1,043,583 876,083 ...
Produce of mines and
founderies, iron, copper,
hardware, jewellery, 7,600,330 6,450,330 ...

Tea, for 7,107,500 rubles assignation, and other products of China, were
brought to the fair; raw cotton, cotton-yarn, shawls, silks, skins, &c.
from Persia and Asia, to the value of 29,796,819 roubles assignation,
and chiefly sold. Of the products of Western Europe, which make but a
miserable exhibit, the following are the chief:--

Woollen stuffs, for 256,455 silver rubles.
Cottons, 510,830 ...
Linens and hempen fabrics, 192,300 ...
Silks, 423,130 ...
Indigo, 918,000 ...

The growing magnitude of this fair will be appreciated by the following
returns of former years:--

Total commodities
for sale. Rubles assignation.
1829, 104,018,586 of which sold for 50,104,971 rbls. ass.
1831, 129,457,600 ... 98,329,520 ...
1833, 146,207,311 ... 117,210,670 ...
1835, 143,369,240 ... 117,743,340 ...
1837, 146,638,181 ... 125,507,881 ...
1838, 156,192,500 ... 129,234,500 ...
1839, 161,643,674 ... 137,100,774 ...
1840, 165,427,384 ... 135,901,454 ...

The convenience of these fairs for the purposes of interchange, both
between different industries and the populations of different provinces
of the same empire, and with contiguous countries from which so great an
affluence of merchants with their merchandise for exchange was
attracted, has induced the government to decree the establishment of
eleven new fairs in different towns, and fifty-nine others in as many
large villages, which, in growing size, may be already compared with
towns.

The internal commercial communications of Russia are chiefly carried on
by means of those innumerable rivers and canals, that network of natural
and artificial canals, by which she is intersected through all her
extent, and which, taking their rise in various central parts of the
empire, pursue their course singly, or falling into each other, and so
constituting mighty streams, to the White sea and the Baltic, or fall
into the Black sea and the Caspian. The total movement of t