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Any guidebook for tourists travelling around the multinational region presents information about peoples who inhabit the territory. However, the way the information is presented is frequently far from objective. The article studies the peculiarities of the descriptions of native peoples of the Volga Region and the Crimea. The texts of Russian provincial guidebooks in the second part of the ninetieth and the beginning of the twentieth century are the sources of the research. We can identify the existing regional et...

Information presented to readers of guidebooks complies with certain educational, commercial and ideological guidelines. This fact can scarcely be noticed while analysing the materials created in the years of stability, but is clearly observed when studying the data recorded in the years of crucial political and governmental changes or revolutions. The article analyses the transformations taking place in the sphere of tourism in Russia after the Revolution (1917) that occurred due to the new State's doctrines. Rus...