J. M.

CONTENTS

Chap.
[I][The Primitive Democracy of the Slav]
[II][The Descent to Autocracy]
[III][The Moscovites Become Tsars]
[IV][The Rise of the Romanoffs]
[V][The Early Romanoffs]
[VI][A Romanoff Princess]
[VII][The Great Peter]
[VIII][Catherine the Little]
[IX][Romance Upon Romance]
[X][The Gay and Pious Elizabeth]
[XI][Catherine the Great]
[XII][In the Days of Napoleon]
[XIII][The Fight Against Liberalism]
[XIV][The Tragedy of Alexander II]
[XV][Enter Pobiedonostseff]
[XVI][The Last of the Romanoffs]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[ The Tsar Nicholas II ]

[ Vladimir, Grande Duke of Kieff, 980-1015 From an Ancient Banner ]

[ Tatars of the Mongol Period ]

[ Costume of Boyars in the Seventeenth Century ]

[ The Patriarch Philaret, father of Mikhail Romanoff, the first Tsar of the New Dynasty. Seventeenth Century ]

[ Ivan the Terrible, by Antokolsky ]