ISABEL F. HAPGOOD

AUTHOR OF
"RUSSIAN RAMBLES," AND "THE EPIC SONGS OF RUSSIA"

NEW YORK CHAUTAUQUA SPRINGFIELD CHICAGO
The Chautauqua Press
MCMII

Copyright, 1902, by
THE CHAUTAUQUA PRESS

The Lakeside Press, Chicago, Ill., U. S. A.
R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company

CONTENTS

  1. The Ancient Period, from the Earliest Times to the Introduction of Christianity in 988 [1]
  2. The Ancient Period, from the Introduction of Christianity to the Tatár Dominion, 988-1224 [39]
  3. Second Period, from the Tatár Dominion to the Time of Iván the Terrible, 1224-1330 [47]
  4. Third Period, from the Time of Iván the Terrible, 1530, to the Middle of the Seventeenth Century [50]
  5. Fourth Period, from the Middle of the Seventeenth Century to the Epoch of Reform under Peter the Great [61]
  6. Fifth Period, the Reign of Peter the Great, 1689-1723 [66]
  7. Sixth Period, the Reign of Katherine II. 1762-1796 [80]
  8. Seventh Period, from Púshkin to the Writers of the Forties [123]
  9. Seventh Period: Gontcharóff, Grigoróvitch, Turgéneff [161]
  10. Seventh Period: Ostróvsky, A. K. Tolstóy, Polónsky, Nekrásoff, Shevtchénko, and Others [181]
  11. Dostoévsky [212]
  12. Seventh Period: Danilévsky, Saltykóff, L. N. Tolstóy, Górky, and Others [229]