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Identifier: russiawithtehera00karl (find matches)
Title: Russia, with Teheran, Port Arthur, and Peking; handbook for travellers
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Karl Baedeker (Firm)
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Publisher: Leipzig, K. Baedeker
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
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with Wisby, which was thenthe focus of the Baltic trade. They long possessed a factory there, whileat the beginning of the 12th cent, a German settlement (Deutscher Hof)was established at Novgorod. In its struggles with the Mongols Novgorodwas victorious, but it fostered, from motives of ))olicy, a good understand-ing with the Khan of the Golden Horde. — The Novgorodians also ex-tended their ))Owers to the Volga and towards the N. From this i)erioddate the saying Who can resist God and Novgorod the Great? (KtoiipoTHB-K Bora h BejiHKaro Hosropo/ia?) and the name Lord Novgorodthe Great (rocno;iHHT> BejiHKift HoBropo^t)- The propinquity of theRussian princes, however, prevented the Novgorodians from perpetuatingtheir empire. In 1471 their armies were defeated near Lake Ilmen (Juneand July) by the Russian and Tartar hordes of Ivdti III., Grand-Prince ofMoscow, and Novgorod was compelled to acknowledge his supremacy.The brave Marfa Boretzkaya, who wanted to ))ut the town under Polisli
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NOVGOROD. 36. Route. 263 protection, ended her life as a prisoner at Nizhni-Novgorod. Six yearslater new dissensions arose, and in Jan., 1478, the town was capturedand its citizens paid homage to Ivan. Ivan the Terrible destroyed the lastrelics of the former prosperity of Novgorod in 1570, when he. is said tohave butchered 60,000 of its citizens. The foundation of St. Petersburg andnumerous conflagrations completed the ruin of the once flourishing free city. From the Railway Station (beyond PI. D, 4), which lies tothe W. of the town, the Legoshtchaya leads through the SophiaSide to (^4 ti-) the — Kremlin (PI. E, 3), the brick walls of which, with their nineround and square towers, date from 1303 and 1490 (with restorationsin 1698 and 1862). The popular assemblies referred to above wereheld in the great square of the Kremlin. In the middle of thissquare stands a Millennial Monument (naMHTHHKt TticaqejifeTiioPoccin; PI. 2), erected in 1862, from the design of Mikeshin, tocommemorate t

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