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THE GROWTH OF RUSSIA 



^o/ln B TorderC 



is but tlie later liistory of tho.^e Slavic Lands, planted in the plain and 

 confronted throughout its larger part by the children of the East. 



THK RKGINXINGS (W -NATIONAL KXISTKNCE 



History has no drearier, more depressing page than that wherein 

 IS written the story of Russia from the tenth to the fifteenth centurv. 

 Disastrous as were the intermittent foreign wars, still more destruc- 

 tive was the internecine strife in which cities and districts and prin- 

 cipalities constantly engaged. 



