Story of Russia
W. P. 2.
To
HENRY MATHER LOWMAN
amicus certus re incerta cernitur.
PREFACE.
Recent events have drawn the attention upon Russia, a country of which but little is known here, because the intercourse between it and the United States has been limited. In my frequent journeys to the Far East, I found it often difficult to comprehend events because, while I could not help perceiving that the impulse leading to them came from Russia, it was impossible to discover what prompted the government of the czar. I felt the necessity to study the history of Russia, and found it so fascinating, that I resolved to place it in a condensed form before the students in our schools. They must be the judges of how I have succeeded.
R. Van Bergen.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER
- [The Realm of the Czar]
- [Early Records of Russia]
- [The Norsemen (or Varingians) in Russia]
- [Saint Vladimir and Iaroslaf the Great]
- [A Russian Republic]
- [Troublous Times]
- [The Yellow Peril]
- [Russia Under the Mongol Yoke]
- [Lithuania and Moscow]
- [Decline of the Tartar Power. Dmitri Donskoï]
- [Ivan III, the Great]
- [Russia becomes an Autocracy]
- [Ivan IV, the Terrible]
- [Russia Under Ivan the Terrible]
- [Feodor, the Last of Rurik's Descendants]
- [Michael Feodorovitch (Son of Theodore) the First Romanof]
- [Early Years of Peter the Great (Peter Alexievitch)]
- [Peter the Great and His Reign]
- [Peter the Great and His Time]
- [The Successors of Peter the Great]
- [Russia Under Catherine II (the Great)]
- [Russia During the Wars of Napoleon]
- [An Eventful Period]
- [Alexander II, the Liberator]
- [Great Events During Alexander's Reign Nihilism]
- [Alexander III, the Peasants' Friend]
- [Russia Methods: The War with Japan]
- [The Origin and Growth of The Asiatic Empire]
- [Russian Methods. The War with Japan]
- [Russia Loses her Prestige]