My first goal in this volume is to furnish all interested people a reference guide that might help them make insights into shamanism in its "core" area. For this reason, my bibliography has slightly different format. On the one hand, I did not want to commit myself to reproducing excerpts from relevant works or to rendering entire texts into English. On the other hand, I did not want to turn this volume into simply a list of books with brief annotations, which do not provide any significant information to a person who does not know Russian and therefore cannot consult original sources. As a result, I selected a "golden medium" approach, turning my annotations into summaries and digests of relevant books and articles. The reader will discover that my summaries include both information on theoretical views of individual authors and interesting stories, which authors of the reviewed works have to share with us. This book might also serve as a good start for anyone interested in Siberian shamanism. I consider my book a continuation of the aforementioned projects. At the same time, I designed the present volume not only as a pure bibliography or a reference ethnography. My second goal is to illustrate how Russian observers recorded Siberian shamanism and also how their perceptions of indigenous spirituality evolved over time. As a historian, I want to illuminate how cultural milieu as well as academic and general intellectual fashions affected observers of shamanism. The present collection is unavoidably selective. Of the wide variety of books and articles, I tried to choose those that, in my view, are the most representative. With a few exceptions, they were not translated or rendered into English. The titles included in this bibliography are not only ethnographies and anthropological studies, but also travel narratives, popular and fictional books, and magazine articles from preRevolutionary and present-day Russian periodicals. All in all, I tried to flash a gallery of authors who wrote on the topic of shamanism in Russian. They are Russians and natives, explorers and missionaries, outsiders and insiders, ethnographers and esoteric writers. Chronologically the reviews cover the literature published in nineteenth and twentieth century Russia/Soviet Union. Reviewing all these sources, I tried not only to digest and render their content, but also to maintain some of their contemporary usage and style.