Historical Tales, Volume VIII: Russian
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- 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 Impostors
- 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
- From 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
- Kosciusko 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
These Russian tales span the time of Russia's founding in the 800s-900s all the way to the early twentieth century and are factually based, although particularly the older tales have become legendary. ( DrPGould)
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