The Russian empire is comparatively young. It is practically a modern structure in its political composition.
It is a medley of many peoples. This is quite as true of the Tsar's empire as of Great Britain, but the geographical solidity of Russia might deceive the casual observer in the one case, whereas the vast dominions of Edward VII., being scattered to the four corners of the earth, are obviously of different tongues and complexions.
So it is with Russia. The Tsar's subjects embrace the fair-haired nations of the Baltic, the wild Cossacks of the Don, the Turcoman races of the mountain regions to the south of the Caspian, Kurds, Kalmucks, Mongols, Eskimos, and all the tribes that stretch from the Ural eastward to the Pacific without name and without number. We have, therefore, to consider an ethnological conglomerate.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
