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Mary Platt Parmele. A Short History of Russia
A Short History of Russia
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ILLUSTRATIONS
A SHORT HISTORY OF RUSSIA
CHAPTER I
PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS AND RACES
CHAPTER II
SLAVONIC RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL SYSTEMS
CHAPTER III
RURIK AND HIS DESCENDANTS
CHAPTER IV
RUSSIANS CONVERSION—GREEK AND LATIN CHRISTIANITY
CHAPTER V
PRINCIPALITIES—EXPANSION NORTHWARD
CHAPTER VI
GERMAN INVASION—MONGOL INVASION
CHAPTER VII
UNDER MONGOL YOKE
CHAPTER VIII
RUSSIA BECOMES MUSCOVITE
CHAPTER IX
PASSING OF BYZANTIUM—MONGOL YOKE BROKEN
CHAPTER X
GRAND PRINCE BECOMES TSAR
[Illustration: The Czar Iván the Terrible and his son Iván Ivánovitch. From the painting by I. E. Répin.]
CHAPTER XI
IVAN THE TERRIBLE—ACQUISITION OF SIBERIA
CHAPTER XII
SERFDOM CREATED—THE FIRST ROMANOFF
CHAPTER XIII
NIKON'S ATTEMPT—RASKOLNIKS
CHAPTER XIV
PETER STUDIES EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION
CHAPTER XV
CHARLES XII.—NARVA—ST. PETERSBURG
CHAPTER XVI
RUSSIA KNOUTED INTO CIVILIZATION—PETER DEAD
CHAPTER XVII
GERMINATING OF SEED—CATHERINE EMPRESS
CHAPTER XVIII
PARTITION OF POLAND—DEATH OF CATHERINE
CHAPTER XIX
NAPOLEON IN EUROPE—ATTITUDE OF RUSSIA
CHAPTER XX
NAPOLEON IN RUSSIA—HOLY ALLIANCE
CHAPTER XXI
RUSSIA ORIENTALIZED—EASTERN QUESTION
CHAPTER XXII
1848 IN EUROPE—CRIMEAN WAR
CHAPTER XXIII
LIBERALISM—EMANCIPATION OF SERFS
CHAPTER XXIV
TURCO-RUSSIAN WAR—TREATY OF BERLIN
CHAPTER XXV
ALEXANDER II. ASSASSINATED—NIHILISM
[Illustration: The Coronation of the Czar Alexander III., 1883. The Emperor crowning the Empress at the Church of the Assumption. From a drawing by Edwin B. Child.]
CHAPTER XXVI
FINLAND—HAGUE TRIBUNAL—POLITICAL CONDITIONS
SUPPLEMENT TO SHORT HISTORY OF RUSSIA
[Illustration: Scene during the Russo-Japanese War: Russian soldiers on the march in Manchuria.]
LIST OF PRINCES
INDEX
