A Short History of Russia
by Mary Platt Parmele
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About this eBook
- Author
- Parmele, Mary Platt, 1843-1911
- Credits
- Produced by Al Haines
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DK: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Russia, Former Soviet Republics, Poland
- Subject
- Russia -- History
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 16930
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16930
- Release Date
- October 23, 2005
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.[Frontispiece: Peter the Great.] — A SHORT HISTORY OF RUSSIA — BY
- 2.MARY PLATT PARMELE — ILLUSTRATED — NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1907 — PREFACE.
- 3.CONTENTS. — CHAPTER I. — CHAPTER II. — CHAPTER III. — CHAPTER IV. — CHAPTER V. — CHAPTER VI. — CHAPTER VII. — CHAPTER VIII. — CHAPTER IX. — CHAPTER X. — CHAPTER XI. — CHAPTER XII. — CHAPTER XIII. — CHAPTER XIV. — CHAPTER XV. — CHAPTER XVI. — CHAPTER XVII. — CHAPTER XVIII. — CHAPTER XIX. — CHAPTER XX. — CHAPTER XXI. — CHAPTER XXII. — CHAPTER XXIII. — CHAPTER XXIV. — CHAPTER XXV. — CHAPTER XXVI. — SUPPLEMENT. — LIST OF PRINCES. — INDEX.
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS. — Peter the Great . . . . . . Frontispiece — The Czar Iván the Terrible and his son Iván Ivánovitch — The Coronation of the Czar Alexander III., 1883 — Scene during the Russo-Japanese War: Russian soldiers on the march in Manchuria
- 5.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.
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