We shall now consider briefly the rise of United Russia as it has come down to us today, based as it was upon the Muscovite dynasty as a corner stone.
Throughout the long, turbulent generations which marked the development of Russia as a whole we find a constant mingling of strife by rival military leaders and activities which had their origin in the heads of the different division of Christianity, namely the Roman Catholics, Greek Catholics and Protestants.
The ecclesiastic and military chieftain were equally vigilant and strenuous in their efforts to shape the political events of the middle ages. The student of the history of these times must above all keep his eye upon the Pope of Rome. In common with the rest of Europe, Russia did not escape from the struggles for supremacy between the great prelates of those centuries.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
