Really nice armoire!  (SUCH an improvement over the functional but ugly pressboard monstrosity I enjoyed demolishing!  What a concept: REAL wood, with a grain and all!).  
You DO have to order shelves - look for the "Universal Armoire Optional Shelves," which provides a set of 4 shelves.
The instructions were illustrations.  It sometimes took a fair amount of back-and-forth, but it was possible to figure out how to construct the armoire.  All of the bits & pieces were there - nothing was left out of the boxes.  You DO need a helper - don't think you're going to complete assembly on your own!

My one complaint is that there needed to be instructions about the hinges:  Both for the mounting of the doors onto the body, and how to adjust once they're on.  I did some searching and found a YouTube on a European hinge that was close enough that we could figure the hinges out.