Prince Chakrabongse's 1911 Grand Tour

From Thailand to China to Russia and on to Europe, a travelogue written by a Thai prince who married in to the Romanov family.

In 1911, Prince Chakrabongse and his wife Katya (Ekaterina Desnitskaya) made an epic journey by boat and train, across one third of the globe. They were returning to St Petersburg where after meeting in 1905 they had fallen in love and eloped. For Katya, after five challenging years in Bangkok, it was the first time she would see her family; for the prince it was the...