D. APPLETON & COMPANY’S PUBLICATIONS.
The Great Work on Russia.
Fifth Edition now ready.
RUSSIA AS IT IS.
By Count A. de Gurowski.
One neat volume 12mo., pp. 328, well printed. Price $1, cloth.
CONTENTS.—Preface.—Introduction.—Czarism: its historical origin.—The Czar Nicholas.—The Organization of the Government.—The Army and Navy.—The Nobility.—The Clergy.—The Bourgeoisie.—The Cossacks.—The Real People, the Peasantry.—The Rights of Aliens and Strangers.—The Commoner.—Emancipation.—Manifest Destiny.—Appendix.—The Amazons.—The Fourteen Classes of the Russian Public Service; or, the Tschins.—The Political Testament of Peter the Great.—Extract from an Old Chronicle.