World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey

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Authors: Eva March Tappan In Year : 1914

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Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, (France 1848), painting, frontispiece
Russia Part I: Folk-tales and early history: Historical note
The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy
The story of iron and the poison water, from the Kalevala
The country and customs of the Scythians (fifth century B.C.), by Herodotus
The vengeance of Queen Olga (about 945), from the chronicle of Nestor
Vladimir in search of a religion (about 988), by John S. C. Abbott
Russia Part II: In the days of Ivan the Terrible: Historical note
How Russia was freed from the Tartars (1480), by John S. C. Abbott
Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), by Frances A. Shaw
Life at the Setch (fifteenth century), by Nikolai V. Gogol
The false Czar (1605), by Frances A. Shaw
The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor
Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note
A morning with Peter the Great (early in the eighteenth century), by Dmitri Merejkowski
How St. Petersburg was built (1703), by John S. C. Abbott
A supposed letter from an English architect (1715), by Maurice Baring
Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historical note
A day with Catherine the Great (1794), by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski
Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin
The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers
The crossing of the Beresina river (1812), by John S. C. Abbott
Passage of the Beresina, by J. H. Van Papendrecht, painting p. 130
Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note
The surrender of Kamenyetz (1672), by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Poland or Russia ? (1793), by Jane Porter
The division of Poland, by Sir Edwin Arnold
The revolt in Warsaw, 1861, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 158
Russia Part VI: Siberia: Historical note
The conquest of Siberia (1579-1584), by Count Leo Tolstoy
Yermak, a folk-song
How pardon was won for an exile (1808), by Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin
On the march to Siberia (nineteenth century), by Baroness M. De Packh
A Kirghis warrior, by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (Russia, 1842-1904), painting p. 186
In a Tartar tent (about 1909), by Lindon Bates, Jr.
Russia Part VII: A coronation and three wars: Historical note
The coronation of Alexander II (1855), by Count von Moltke
The emancipation of the serfs (1861), by Hezekiah Butterworth
The taking of the village (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vsyevolod Mikhailovitch Garshin
The capture of a redoubt (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin
Coaling at sea (1905), by Commander Vladimir Semenoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy
Russia Part VIII: Life in modern Russia: Historical note
The races on the Neva river (1870), by Théophile Gautier
A little Jewish girl in Russia, by Mary Antin
The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor
Austria-Hungary Part I: From the Tartar invasion to the Reformation: Historical note
The coming of the Tartars (1240), by Louis Felbermann
How Rudolf the First became Emperor (1273), by John S. C. Abbott
Stories of Rudolf, founder of the house of Hapsburg (thirteenth century), by William Coxe
How Naumburg was saved, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, - 1878), painting p. 270
The deliverance of Prague (1420), by E. H. Gillett
A funeral menu of the sixteenth century (1509), from the old chronicles
The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy, by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (German artist, 1820-1900), painting p. 284
Austria-Hungary Part II: The religious wars of the seventeenth century: Historical note
The devastation of St. Vitus's church (1619-1620), by Marie Hay
Wallenstein, the deposed general (1630), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
Wallenstein and the cuirassiers (1634), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
How John Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks (1683), by John S. C. Abbott
Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Historical note
How Maria Theresa of Austria became King (1740), by John S. C. Abbott
The command of Maria Theresa, by John S. C. Abbott
Hohenlinden (1800), by Thomas Campbell
The battle of Austerlitz (1805), by John S. C. Abbott
How the French honored Joseph Haydn (1805), by ''Louisa Mühlbach'' (Klara M. Mundt)
Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers, by Franz von Defregger (Austrian painter, 1835), painting p. 344
Austria-Hungary Part IV: The nineteenth century: Historical note
After the battle of Szolnok (1849), by Maurus Jókai
The unlucky weathercock (1849), by Maurus Jókai
Kossuth's farewell (1849)
The salt mines of Wieliczka (1850), by Bayard Taylor
Austria-Hungary Part V: Stories and poems of Bohemia, Hungary, and the Tyrol: Historical note
The dog and the wolf, a Bohemian folk-tale, retold by Theodor Vernaleken
The poor man and the king of the crows, a Magyar folk-tale, retold by Jeremiah Curtin
St. Kümmerniss, a legend of the Tyrol
The legend of St. Kümmerniss, by François Joseph Heim (French artist, 1787-1865), painting p. 400
Stories of the gypsies
Two Magyar poems
A Csikos race, by Alexander Wagner (Hungarian artist, 1838), painting p. 408
The Balkan States: Historical note
Marko and the Turks (fifteenth century), an old Servian ballad
Montenegro, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
An attack on the Bashi-Bazouks (1907), by Arthur D. Howden Smith
Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, -1878), painting p. 434
The siege of Adrianople (1912), by Philip Gibbs
The flight from Lule-Burgas (1912), by Bernard Grant
Turkey Part I: To the capture of Constantinople: Historical note
Constantinople, a city built to order (fourth century), by Edward Gibbon
The coming of the comet (1402), by Maurus Jókai
Scanderbeg (about 1450), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The fall of Constantinople (1453), by Edward Gibbon
Turkey Part II: Turkey at the height of her power: Historical note
The tribute of children, by Anonymous
The little Janizary (about 1453), by James M. Ludlow
The surrender of Rhodes (1522), by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent (sixteenth century), translated from a Genoese letter
Dining with the Sultana (1718), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Turkey Part III: The sick man of Europe: Historical note
The last of the Janizaries (1826), by Maurus Jókai
The muezzin, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 528
''The House of Fear'' (1908), by Francis McCullagh
The silent army (1909), by Francis McCullagh
Turkey Part IV: Turkish stories: Historical note
''The lamb bolted'', a legend of Turkish justice
Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja
A Turkish friendship (eighteenth century), by Cheliby Yorgaki
Turkey Part V: Stories of Turkish life and customs: Historical note
The first telegraph in Turkey (1854), by Sir J. William Whittall
Choosing a wife for the son, by Lucy M. J. Garnett
''Protestant bread'', by Cyrus Hamlin, D. D.
The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe
Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari, by Albert Aublet (French artist, 1851), painting p. 574
A Turkish ''What for ?'', by Demetra Vaka

This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part VI include the Russian Empire, the fights for independence in Hungary and the Balkan states and the politics of early Turkey. - Summary by Sonia

Cast list for Wallenstein and the cuirassiers:
Terzky: alanmapstone / Wallenstein: Foon / Anspessade: Tomas Peter / Second Cuirassier: Eva Davis / Third Cuirassier: Monika M.C. / Butler: Nemo / Narrator: Sonia