Our narrative has now reached the restorative period of Russian history. We have seen how Russia, from a collection of barbarous tribes, has gradually become a great group of Slavic-Tartar principalities, and how out of the turmoil of centuries the Muscovite princes of the house of Rurik had become pre-eminent, until Ivan the Great assumed the title of Czar, and Ivan the Terrible became the finished article in the line of an absolute and fully-developed irresponsible despot. We have seen how he was succeeded by political confusion and finally anarchy.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
