This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... "Rather than surrender," she gasped, "have they blown up the fortress?" Through the mass of debris that lay heaped about us, I searched vainly to find passage. "Trapped!" I muttered, "the conflagration hems us about on all sides!" 1 Barishnya, Miss. The "Man-Tsar," Peter Alexeivitch Romanoff "He looked the King from ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ... "Rather than surrender," she gasped, "have they blown up the fortress?" Through the mass of debris that lay heaped about us, I searched vainly to find passage. "Trapped!" I muttered, "the conflagration hems us about on all sides!" 1 Barishnya, Miss. The "Man-Tsar," Peter Alexeivitch Romanoff "He looked the King from head to toe." From a print by J. Smith, after a picture by Kneller. permission J. O. Wright "Nay, follow me," called the girl, unbolting a postern gate. As I strove to keep pace with her flying footsteps a sudden lassitude overcame me and I sank to the ground. "Thou art wounded!" she cried, clasping her strong arms about me and lifting me as though I were but a child. Bearing me back to the Manse, she laid me upon a bed. With a mother's tenderness she staunched my wound and ministered to my pain. Happily the flood of flame was kept at safe distance by the lilac-bowered garden in which the cottage was islanded. By good fortune there was food and drink in the cellars. For days we waited praying Heaven for succour. At last the conflagration subsided and my faithful troopers breached the smoking ruins and rescued us feeble but living from the raging hell. Henceforth the maid, Catharine, and I became comrades inseparable. Captive of my bow and spear, so I dubbed her, but in my secret heart I knew myself the willing captive of the beauteous serf. IV THE MAN TSAR Along a steep and tortuous trail By Neva's mighty flood, Through lonely wilds of wood and vale A weary horseman rode. Beneath a towering pine-tree vast By Neva's turbid tide, A fisher o'er a broken mast His shining hatchet plied. The horseman spied the fisher there, "Good Finn," he cried, "Good-day!...
Read Less
Add this copy of Romance of Russia From Rurik to Bolshevik to cart. $22.00, good condition, Sold by Xerxes Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Glen Head, NY, UNITED STATES.
Add this copy of Romance of Russia, From Rurik to Bolshevik, to cart. $25.23, good condition, Sold by Books From California rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Simi Valley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1921 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
Add this copy of The Romance of Russia from Rurik to Bolshevik to cart. $36.89, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2014 by Literary Licensing, LLC.
Add this copy of Romance of Russia From Rurik to Bolshevik to cart. $42.75, very good condition, Sold by CTrarebooks rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Westport, CT, UNITED STATES, published 1921 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. DJ a bit chipped and price clipped. Former owner's inscription on front endpaper; Scarce with DJ. Nicely illustrated; B&W Illustrations; 8vo; 351 pages.
Add this copy of The Romance of Russia From Rurik to Bolshevik to cart. $67.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing.
Add this copy of Romance of Russia From Rurik to Bolshevik to cart. $67.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Kessinger Publishing.
Add this copy of The Romance of Russia From Rurik to Bolshevik to cart. $71.74, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by Literary Licensing, LLC.
