Table of Contents

Front Matter

The Ancient Scythians
Oleg the Varangian
The Vengeance of Queen Olga
Vladimir the Great
The Lawgiver of Russia
The Yoke of the Tartars
The Victory of the Don
Ivan, the First of the Czars
The Fall of Novgorod the Great
Ivan the Terrible
The Conquest of Siberia
The Macbeth of Russia
The Era of Imposters
The Book of Ancestry
The Boyhood of Peter the Great
Carpenter Peter of Zaandam
The Fall of Strelitz
The Crusade Against Beards and Cloaks
Mazeppa, the Cossack Chief
A Window Open to Europe
Frome the Hovel to the Throne
Buffooneries of the Russian Court
How a Woman Dethroned a Man
A Struggle for a Throne
The flight of the Kalmucks
A Magical Transformation Scene
Kosiusko and the Fall of Poland
Suwarrow the Unconquerable
The Retreat of Napoleon's Grand Army
The Death-Struggle of Poland
Schamyl, the Hero of Circassia
The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Fall of Sebastopol
At the Gates of Constantinople
The Nihilists and Their Work
The Advance of Russia in Asia
The Railroad in Turkestan
An Escape from the Mines of Siberia
The Sea Fight in the Waters of Japan