Rare piece of ephemera from the 1904 exposition in St. Louis, an unused contract printed in Russian, for exhibiting at the Fair. The Russian government decided not to participate in the Fair, even though exhibits from that country already had arrived in St. Louis. Space originally allocated to Russia was assigned to other exhibitors. Fair organizers did honor the request of a contingent of Russians allowing some smaller exhibits in the palaces of Fine Arts, Varied Industries, Manufactures and Education.