The Giants of Russian Literature: The Greatest Russian Novels, Stories, Plays, Folk Tales & Legends. Максим Горький
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The Baba Yaga
The Witch and the Sun’s Sister
The Metamorphosis of the Dnieper, the Volga, and the Dvina.
Elijah the Prophet and Nicholas
The Priest with the Greedy Eyes
On Russian Novelists (William Lyon Phelps)
Lectures on Russian Novelists (Ivan Panin)
Introduction:
The Rise of the Russian Empire
(H. H. Munro aka Saki)
CHAPTER I THE DAWN OF RUSSIAN HISTORY
CHAPTER II THE COMING OF THE VARANGIANS AND THE BUILDING OF KIEVIAN RUSSIA
CHAPTER III THE FEUDS OF THE HOUSE OF RURIK
CHAPTER IV THE COMING OF THE MONGOLS
CHAPTER V “THE YEARS THAT THE LOCUST HATH EATEN”
CHAPTER VI THE GROWING OF THE GERM
CHAPTER VII THE LAST OF THE PALEOLOGI AND THE FIRST OF THE AUTOCRATS
CHAPTER XI “THIS SIDE THE HILL”
GLOSSARY OF RUSSIAN WORDS EMPLOYED WITHOUT EXPLANATION IN TEXT
“On se flatterait en vain de connaitre la Russie actuelle, si l’on ne
remontait plus haut dans son histoire.”—Le Père Pierling.
PREFACE
With the exception of a translation of Rambaud’s somewhat disjointed work, there is no detailed history of Russia in the English language at all approaching modern standards. The reigns of Petr the Great and of some of his successors down to the present day—a period covering only 200 years—have been minutely dealt with, but the earlier history of a nation with