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Title: The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across Siberia..
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896
Subjects: Soviet Union -- Description and travel Siberia (Russia)
Publisher: New York : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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o have had their centrearound the Carpathian Mountains, whence they sjDread to the four pointsof the compass. On the north they reached to the Baltic; westward, theywent to the banks of the Elbe; southward, beyond the Danube; andeastward, their progress was impeded by the Tartar hordes of Asia, and 96 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSL^N EMPIRE. tliey did not j^enetrate far into Siberia until comparatively recent times.With their extension thej split up into numerous tribes and independentorganizations; thus their unity was lost, and they took the form in wliicliwe find them to-day. Poles and Kussians are both of the same race, andtheir languages have a common origin; but nowhere in the world can befound two people who hate each other more heartily. However muchthe Russians have favored a Pan-Slavist union, you may be sure the Poleslook on it with disfavor. The ancient Slavonic language has given way to the modern formsin the same way that Latin has made way for French, Italian, Spanish,
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ST. ISA.VC S CHlRCII AND ADMIRALTY SyUAKE. and other tongues and dialects with a Latin origin. In fact those lan-guages hold the same relation to Latin that Polish, Russian, Servnan, andBulgarian hold towards ancient Slavonic. The Romish Church uses Latinin its service, and the Russo-Greek Church uses the old Slavonic ; thePoles, Bohemians, and others have adopted the Roman alphabet, but theRussians use the Slavonic characters in a modified form. The Russianalphabet has thirty-six letters, some being Roman, others Greek, and oth-ers Slavonic. After you have learned the alphabet and can spell out the THE CHURCH OF ST. ISAAC. 97 signs on the shops and street corners, Ill tell you more about the lan-guage. It was getting late, and the party broke xip a few minutes after theforegoing conversation. Before they separated. Doctor Bronson suggestedto the youths that he should expect them to read up the history of Rus-sia, and not forget the Romanoff family. The Romanoffs, said he, arethe reig

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