Reproduces a pre-revolutionary collection of publications known as Sbornik geograficheskikh, topograficheskikh i statisticheskikh materialov po Azii (Collection of Geographical, Topographical and Statistical Materials on Asia) which was issued by the General Staff of the Russian Army between 1883 and 1914 in 87 thick volumes and 9 supplements. The secret prints are accounts of travels to lesser-known reaches of Asia, mostly by Russian army officers including among others authors such Nikolaĭ Przhevalskiĭ, Aleksĭ Kuropatkin, Nikolaĭ Ermolov, Gustav Mannerheim, Lavr Kornilov, and Andreĭ Snesarev. The articles range from attaché and diplomatic dispatches to histories of tsarist plans for the invasion of India, the siege of Herat, and European campaigns against China.