The Story of Russia

A richly illustrated and detailed history of Russia from the founding of Rurick Dynasty to the early reign of Nicholas II. 


Contents include:


Preface

The Ancestors of the Russians

The Coming of the Northmen

How the Russians Made Expeditions against Constantinople

Sviatoslaf, the Pagan Warrior

Vladimir, the Beautiful Sun of Kief

The Glory of Kief under Iaroslaf

Family Quarrels Among the Princes

How Andrew, Autocrat of the North, Destroyed Kief

The Rival Princes of Suzdal and Galitch

The Coming of the Tartars

The Story of Alexander, Hero of the Neva

Novgorod, the Great Merchant Commonwealth

How Moscow Triumphed Over Tver

The Hero of the Don

How Russia was almost Crushed Between Timur the Great and a Western Prince

How Dimitri Donski's Grandchildren Quarelled

How Ivan the Great Humiliated Novgorod and Bound the Russian Land

The Fate of Viatka, Tver, and the Princes.

How Ivan the Great Marries a Grecian Princess

How Ivan the Great Broke the Tartar Yoke

How Ivan Dealt with his Son-in-Law

Ivan's Relations with Western Europe

Basil and Lithuania

Basil and the Tartars

How a Many-Winged Eagle Swooped upon Lord Pskof the Great

The Court of Basil Grand Prince of Moscow

How the Young Ivan Discomfited his guardians

How Ivan IV. Took the Title of Tsar and Began to Rule Wisely

How a Threatening Cloud Descended upon Kazan

Defeat in the West—Conquest in the East

How the English Discovered Russia

How Ivan Wrote his Name in Blood

How the Dynasty of Andrew God-Loved Perished from the Earth

How a False Prince Made a Usurper Tremble

How the Ashes of a Russian Tsar Were Fired from a cannon

The Story of a Brigand, a Prince, and a Butcher

How the Tsar Regained the Mother of Russian Cities

A Riot and a Regent

How a Russian Tsar Dreamed of the Sea

The Royal Shipwright of Zaandam

How the Giant Autocrat felled the Iron Head of the North

How a Reformer Knouted his Only Son

How the Russian Throne passed from hand to hand

Catherine Dispatches her Husband

Catherine's Glory and Shame

How the Russian Hamlet wrought his own undoing

The Russian Hamlet

The Invasion of Russia

How St. George Fought with the Dragon

How "Don Quixote" Fought, but not with Windmills

The End of the Krim War and the Beginning of Freedom

How the Nihilists Killed the Tsar Deliverer

The Reign of Alexander III and the Accession of Nicholas II.