INDEX.




ILLUSTRATIONS.


Peter the Great . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

The Czar Iván the Terrible and his son Iván Ivánovitch

The Coronation of the Czar Alexander III., 1883

Scene during the Russo-Japanese War: Russian
soldiers on the march in Manchuria




A SHORT HISTORY OF RUSSIA


CHAPTER I

PRIMITIVE CONDITIONS AND RACES

The topography of a country is to some extent a prophecy of its future.