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Identifier: medievalmodernti01robi (find matches)
Title: Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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I Church of St. Basil, Moscow * Russian Empire in the Nineteenth Century 675 Europe, not to speak of vast reaches of northern Asia whichlay beneath his scepter. Under his dominion there were many races and peoples, dif- Heterogene- . . ous character fenng in customs, language, and religion — rinns, Germans, oftheRus-Poles, Jews, Tartars, Armenians, Georgians, and Mongols.1 sian EmPireThe Russians themselves had colonized the southern plains ofEuropean Russia and had spread even into Siberia. Theymade up a large proportion of the population of the empire,and their language was everywhere taught in the schools andused by the officials. The people of the grand duchy of Finland,speaking Swedish and Finnish, did not like their incorporationwith Russia; and the Poles, recalling the time when their king-dom far outshone the petty duchy of Moscow among the Euro-pean powers, still hoped that the kingdom of Poland might forman independent nation with its own language and constitution. In the

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