PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

THE STORY OF RUSSIA. I THE REALM OF THE CZAR.

II EARLY RECORDS OF RUSSIA.

III THE NORSEMEN (OR VARINGIANS) IN RUSSIA.

IV SAINT VLADIMIR AND IAROSLAF THE GREAT.

V A RUSSIAN REPUBLIC.

VI TROUBLOUS TIMES.

VII THE YELLOW PERIL.

VIII RUSSIA UNDER THE MONGOL YOKE.

IX LITHUANIA AND MOSCOW.

XI IVAN III, THE GREAT.

XII RUSSIA BECOMES AN AUTOCRACY.

XIII IVAN IV, THE TERRIBLE.

XIV RUSSIA UNDER IVAN THE TERRIBLE.

XV FEODOR, THE LAST OF RURIK'S DESCENDANTS.

XVI MICHAEL FEODOROVITCH OR MICHAEL, THE SON OF THEODORE, THE FIRST ROMANOF.

XVII EARLY YEARS OF PETER THE GREAT (PETER ALEXIEVITCH).

XVIII PETER THE GREAT AND HIS REIGN.

XIX PETER THE GREAT AND HIS TIME.

XX THE SUCCESSORS OF PETER THE GREAT.

XXI RUSSIA UNDER CATHERINE II (THE GREAT).

XXII RUSSIA DURING THE WARS OF NAPOLEON.

XXIII AN EVENTFUL PERIOD.

XXIV ALEXANDER II, THE LIBERATOR.

XXVI ALEXANDER III, THE PEASANTS' FRIEND.

XXVIII THE ORIGIN AND GROWTH OF THE ASIATIC EMPIRE.

XXIX RUSSIAN METHODS. THE WAR WITH JAPAN.

XXX RUSSIA LOSES HER PRESTIGE.

INDEX.

[Transcriber's note: Obvious printer's errors have been corrected. Author's spelling has been maintained.]

THE STORY OF RUSSIA

BY

R. VAN BERGEN, M.A.

AUTHOR OF "THE STORY OF JAPAN," "THE STORY OF CHINA," ETC.

NEW YORK-:-CINCINNATI-:-CHICAGO
AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

Copyright, 1905,
By AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London

Story of Russia
W. P. 2.

To
HENRY MATHER LOWMAN
amicus certus re incerta cernitur.