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Front Matter The Ancient Scythians Oleg the Varangian The Vengeance of Queen Olga Vladimir the Great The Lawgiver of Russia The Yoke of the Tartars The Victory of the Don Ivan, the First of the Czars Fall of Novgorod the Great Ivan the Terrible The Conquest of Siberia The Macbeth of Russia The Era of Imposters The Book of Ancestry Boyhood of Peter the Great Carpenter Peter of Zaandam The Fall of Strelitz Against Beards and Cloaks Mazeppa, the Cossack Chief A Window Open to Europe From Hovel to the Throne Buffooneries of the Russians Catharine Dethrones Peter A Struggle for a Throne flight of the Kalmucks A Magical Transformation The Fall of Poland Suwarrow the Unconquerable Retreat of Napoleon's Army Death-Struggle of Poland Schamyl, Hero of Circassia The Charge of the Light Brigade The Fall of Sebastopol At the Gates of Constantinople The Nihilists and Their Work The Advance of Russia in Asia The Railroad in Turkestan Escape from Siberia The Sea Fight with Japan

Historical Tales: 8—Russian - Charles Morris



This collection of stories from Poland and Russia begin with the Scythians, thought to be the predecessors of the Slavs, to the years immediately preceding the Russian Revolution. The stories of the earliest governors of Novogorod and the principality of Moscow are given, and the complete tale of Russia's rise from obscurity to one of the most powerful empires on the globe.

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