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. 1893 Excerpt: ...victims being inscribed by Ivan himself in his prayer book. Under Ivan's feeble son Feodor (1584-'98) the regent Boris Godunoff forbade the peasants to leave the esRUSSIA 1123 RUTLAND tates on which they worked, and thus sowed the seed which grew into the serfdom that cursed the country for the next 270 years. This ...
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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. 1893 Excerpt: ...victims being inscribed by Ivan himself in his prayer book. Under Ivan's feeble son Feodor (1584-'98) the regent Boris Godunoff forbade the peasants to leave the esRUSSIA 1123 RUTLAND tates on which they worked, and thus sowed the seed which grew into the serfdom that cursed the country for the next 270 years. This regent murdered Ivan's son Dimitri. On Godunoff's death, a runaway monk, who lived for some time among the Cossacks (" free men"), who were runaway peasants banded together on the Don and Dnieper, imposed himself on Russia as the murdered Dimitri. His assassination at the end of a short reign, was followed by the conquest of the czardom by Sigismund of Poland. The country was freed by a general rising, started by Minin, a Nijni-Novgorod merchant, and aided by the Cossacks. The Poles were driven out, and Mikhael Romanoff (1612-'45), whose grandmother was Ivan's first wife, was chosen ruler. In the reign of Alexei (1646-76) Russia, chiefly by the aid of the Cossacks, at last gained the upper hand in the long struggle with the rival Slav power, Poland. Up to the reign of Peter the Great (1689-1725) the country had been in many respects Mongolian; this able ruler, who first called himself emperor and founded the new capital, St. Petersburg, made it European. He improved the army, started mining and manufactures, imported fine breeds of cattle, set up schools, and dug Russia's great system of canals. The ministers, Menschikoff, under Catharine I., and Dolgorouki, under Peter II., were the real rulers of those reigns. The power of the German party under Anna (1730'40) and Ivan (1740-'41) was lost on the accession of Elizabeth (1741-'62). Peter III., who by sending his army to the support of Frederick the Great against Austria saved Prussia fr...
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Add this copy of The Student's Cyclopaedia a Ready Reference Library for to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Frost Pocket Farm - IOBA rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fleetville, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1899 by J Mitchell Howard, (1893 & 1897).
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Volumes I & II, complete set. Hardcovers, original half black morocco leather (corners and spine), and brown cloth, faux raised bands, marbeled edges and endpapers, index, 1503 pp, illustrated with black and white plates and in-text drawings. Very good. Corners bumped with a bit of cardboard exposed there, rubbed along edges, spines scuffed with approximately 1/4 inch chipping at head of Vol I and a closed tear along rear joint. Internally, paper lightly age yellowed, first free front endpaper of Vol II creased along side edge with a 1/2 inch chip there, otherwise both are tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked. Encyclopedia; reference; Victorian.
