The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time

by John S. C. Abbott

"True," replied the United States Senator, "neither have you any colonies in Central America."

"But," rejoined Sir Henry, "you can never establish your government there, in Asia."

"No," Mr. Douglas replied, "neither do we intend that you shall plant your government here, in Central America."

INDEX.

A.

• Adachef, (Alexis) appointed minister of justice, [22].
• Adrianople, Treaty of, [513].
• Akhmet, Defiant reply of, to Ivan, [178].
• Alains, character and life of the, [19].
• Alexander succeeds Yaroslaf over Novgorod, [127].
  • ordered to attend Bati, [127].
  • appointed King of Southern Russia, [128].
  • his reply to the Pope, [128].
  • conciliates Berki, [128].
• Alexander (Nevsky) puts down a rebellion headed by his son, [129].
  • death of, [129].
  • Yaroslaf of Tiver succeeds, [130].
• Alexander (son of Michel) ascends the throne, [141].
  • outlawed by Usbeck, [142].
  • flight and death of, [142].
• Alexander I., grief of, on the assassination of Paul, [471].
  • re-establishes friendly relations with England, [473].
  • regulations of, [474].
  • message of, to Napoleon, [477].
  • defeat of, at Austerlitz, [479].
  • his interview with the embassador of Napoleon, [480].
  • defeat at Eylau, [484].
  • implores peace, [487].
  • his admiration for Napoleon, [487].
  • forced to turn against Napoleon, [492].
  • magnanimity towards Napoleon, [493].
  • death of, [497].
• Alexander II. succeeds Nicholas on the throne, [517].
  • character of, [518].
• Alexis succeeds Romanow, [291].
  • marriage of, [292].
  • his concessions to the mob, [294].
  • his conquests in Poland, [295].
  • good works of, [296].
  • death of, [299].
• Alexis (son of Peter the Great) bad character of, [343].
  • marriage of, [344].
  • letters from, to his father, [351].
  • flight of, [352].
  • disinherited by his father, [354].
  • plots against the crown, [355].
  • condemned to death, [358].
  • death of, [359].
• America, discovery of, by the Normans, [23].
• Amiens, treaty of, [476].
• Anastasia, death of, [255].
• André (of Souzdal) usurps the Russian throne, [88].
  • moderation of, [92].
  • submission of, [95].
  • homage of Russia to, [95].
  • assassination of, [96].
  • sword of, [96].
  • abolishes appanages, [111].
• André (of Gorodetz) dethrones his brother Dmitri, [133].
  • succeeds Dmitri as sovereign, [134].
  • death of, [135].
• Anne (of Constantinople) forced to marry Vladimir, [55].
  • Christian influence of, over her husband, [57].
  • death of, [58].
• Anne (of England) letter of, to Peter the Great. [342].
• Anne (Duchess of Courland) offered the throne, [366].
  • energy of, [367].
  • death of, [368].
• Anecdote of the preservation of the Greek libraries, [19].
  • of the love of Igor, [32].
  • of the Tartar's theology, [127].
  • of Vassili and the Greek physician, [201].
  • of Peter the Great, [311].
  • of Peter the Great, [320].
  • of Peter III., [385].
• Appanages abolished by André, [111].
• Ascolod and Dir, enterprise and conquests of, [29].
  • conversion of, [29].
  • assassination of, [31].
• Astrachan added to Russia, [244].
• Athens taken by the Goths, [19].
• Attila the king of the Huns, conquests of, [21].
• Avars, conquests of the, [22].
• Aristocracy, gradual rise of an, [25].

B.

• Bajazet II., letter of Ivan to, [186].
  • reply of, [188].
• Baptism of the Russian nation in a day, [56].
  • in Lithuania, [155].
• Barbarians, punishment of the, [87].
• Bathori (Stephen) elected King of Poland, [262].
• Bati given the command of the Tartar horde, [119].
  • depopulates Rezdan, [119].
  • captures Moscow, [120].
  • takes and burns Vladimir, [122].
  • disastrous course of, [123].
  • plunders Kief, [124].
  • possessions of, [125].
  • orders Yaroslaf to appear before him, [125].
  • summons Alexander, [127].
  • death of, [128].
  • Berki succeeds, [128].
• Bayadour, chief of the Mogols, [113].
• Beards ordered to be removed, [327].
• Belsky (Ivan) elected regent of Russia, [209].
  • reforms of, [209].
  • assassination of, [212].
• Bielo (Ozero Sineous) establishes his court at, [27].
• Bielski (Bogdan) his attempt to grasp the throne, [270].
  • his exile, [271].
• "Black Death," ravages of the, [144].
• Bohemia, aid from, to Ysiaslaf, [80].
• Bokhara burned by the Tartars, [116].
• Boleslas, (King of Poland) assists Sviatopolk to defeat Yaroslaf, [59].
  • seizes the sister of Yaroslaf as his concubine, [59].
  • attempt to poison, [59].
  • forced to fly from Kief, [59].
• Boleslas II. (of Poland) reception of Ysiaslaf by, [63].
  • robs Ysiaslaf and expels him, [63].
  • refunds the treasure, [65].
• Bosporus, the Greeks plant their colonies along the shore of the, [17].
• Bulgaria conquered by Sviatoslaf, [46].
  • the capital conveyed from Kief to, [48].
  • conquered by Georges, [72].
  • condition of, [100].
  • expedition against, [101].

C.