The World’s Story A History of the World in Story, Song and Art Volume 22 Russia Edited by Eva March Tappan
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CONTENTS RUSSIA
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FOLK-TALES AND EARLY HISTORY
THE IMP AND THE CRUST .
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Count Leo Tolstoy
THE STORY OF IRON AND THE POISON WATER
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Herodotus From "Stories of the East from Herodotus," retold by Alfred J. Church. THE VENGEANCE OF QUEEN OLGA From the Chronicle of Nestor John S. C. Abbott VLADIMIR IN SEARCH OF A RELIGION From "The Empire of Russia."
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THE COUNTRY AND CUSTOMS OF THE ScYTHIANS •
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II. IN THE DAYS OF IVAN THE TERRIBLE
John S. C. Abbott
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Frances A. Shaw
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Nikolai V. Gogol
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Frances A. Shaw
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Bayard Taylor
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Dmitri Afercjkowski
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John S. C. Abbott
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How RussIA WAS FREED FROM THE TARTARS
From "The Empire of Russia."
IVAN THE TERRIBLE .
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From "A Brief History of Russia."
LIFE AT THE SETCH
From "Taras Bulba."
THE FALSE CZAR .
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THE KREMLIN OF Moscow
From "Travels in Greece and Russia." III.
PETER THE GREAT
A �IORNING WITH PETER THE GREAT
From "Peter and Alexis."
How ST. PETERSBURG WAS BUILT
From "The Empire of Russia."
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A SUPPOSED LETTER FROM AN ENGLISH ARCHITECT
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From "Dead Letters.'
CONTENTS IV. FRm.1 CATHERINE THE G REAT TO THE INVASION OF NAPOLEON A DAY WITH CATHERINE THE GREAT BORODINO THE BURNING OF
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Louis Adolphe Thiers 121 From "History of the Consulate and the Empire." THE CROSSING OF THE BERESINA RIVER . John S. C. Abbott 126 From "The History of Napoleon Bonaparte." V. POLAND THE SURRENDER OF KAMENYETZ •
From "Pan Michael."
POLAND OR RUSSIA? .
From "Thaddeus of Warsaw."
TklE DI\'ISION OF POLAND .
Henryk Sienkiewicz 137 Jane Porter 150 Sir &lwin Amold 159
VI. SIBERIA THE CONQUEST OF SIBERIA YER.\IAK How PARDON WAS WON FOR AN EXILE
Count Leo Tolstoy 165 A folk-song 177
Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin 180 From "Elizabeth, or the Exiles of Siberia." ON THE :\IARCH TO SIBERIA . Baroness M. de Packh 186 From "Twenty Years in Siberia, and Leaves from My Russian Diary." IN A TARTAR TENT . • • Lindon Bates, Jr. 193 From "The Russian Road to China." VII . A CORONATION AND THREE WARS
. Count van Moltke From "Field-Marshal Count Moltke's Letters from Russia." THE E::u:ANCIPATION OF THE SERFS . Hezekiah Butter.v orlh THE TAKING OF THE V ILLAGE Vsyei·olod Mikhailovitch Garshin From "Stories from Garshin." THE C APTURE OF A REDOUBT Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin From "The War Correspondent." C OALING AT SEA . Commander Vladimir Semenojf From "Rasplata" ("The Reckoning"). THE C ORONATION OF ALEXANDER II
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LIFE IN MODERN RUSSIA
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From "A Winter in Russia." A LITTLE JEWISH GIRL IN RUSSIA
TMoplzile Gautier 243 Mary A 11/iu
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Ed11a Dean Proctor
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