Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The History of Russia, From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Vol. 1 of 2: Compiled From the Most Authentic Sources, Including the Works of Karamsin, Tooke, and Segur
The literature of England is singularly deficient in the department of Russian history. Travellers have given us some insight into the actual condition of the empire; and for portions of its history under the present and the pre ceding reign we may turn with advantage to some recent works. But when we desire to study, from its infancy in the ninth century to its present stage of growth, the whole life of that anomalous member of the European confederacy, which pretends to exercise a despotic hegemony over the 'rest, our English guides give but scanty help, and often mis lead 011 essential points.
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