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.
Ancient Russia
The Scourge of the Steppes
Rurik the Peacemaker
The Throne Held in Trust
Igor Comes to His Own
A Famous Character in History
A Celebrated Sovereign
The Heroic Epoch of Russia
Jaroslov the Wise
Famous in Politics and Peace
War Over the Succession
Moscow Assumes Importance
The Institutions of Novgorod
Resembled a Modern City
A Population of One Hundred Thousand
Elected Their Ruler
Various Classes of Society
The Germans in Control
The Ecclesiastical Forces
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
