[Footnote 6: _Pravda Russka_, Jus Russorum. See above, p. 40, n. 19.] [Footnote 7: See above, p. 41.] [Footnote 8: These valuable chronicles were continued under different titles, but without interruption, until the reign of Alexis, father of Peter I.] [Footnote 9: The Mongols and Tartars have been frequently confounded by historical writers; they are however two races perfectly distinct from each other, the first a North-Eastern, the second a South-Western Asiatic nation. The Mongols, however, between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, conquerors of the Tartars as well as of half Asia, and of Europe as far as Silesia, and comparatively not numerous, amalgamated gradually with the subjugated Tartars among whom they settled. The present Mongols are partly under the sovereignty of China in the ancient Mongolia, the country whence Jenghis Khan came; partly Russian subjects, scattered through the government of Irkutzk, and mixed with Kalmucks and other Asiatic tribes.] [Footnote 10: Also called Ivan II, and Ivan the Cruel; by modern historians the Russian Nero.] [Footnote 11: See above, p. 51.] [Footnote 12: Most of these dramas are extant in manuscript in the synodal library at Moscow. A selection has been printed in the _Drewn. Rossisk. Bibliotheka_, i.e. Old Russian Library, Moscow 1818.] [Footnote 13: The above mentioned chronicles, and another series of annals of a genealogical character, known under the title _Stepennaja Knigi_, mutually supply each other. Simon of Suzdal, the metropolitan Cyprian a Servian by birth, and Macarius metropolitan of Moscow a clergyman of great merits, are to be named here. Another old chronicle called _Sofiiskii Wremenik_ was first published in 1820 by Stroyef. A chronicle of Novogorod referring to the sixteenth century was found by the same scholar in the library at Paris.] [Footnote 14: There is, however, in the style of Nestor and his immediate successors, a certain effort towards animation. Speeches and dialogues are introduced, and pious reflections and biblical sentences are scattered through the whole.] [Footnote 15: Known under the title _Nikonov spisok_, published St. Petersburg 1767-92, 8 vols. For the _Improvement_ of the Slavonic Bible, Nikon alone, by applying to the Patriarch of Constantinople and other Greek dignitaries, obtained 500 Greek MSS. of the whole or portions of the N. Test. Some of them contained also the Septuagint. These were mostly from Mount Athos, and are now the celebrated Moscow MSS. collated by Matthæi. See Henderson, p. 52, 53.] [Footnote 16: Joseph Sanin, a monk, wrote a history of the Jewish heresy, so called, in the fifteenth century, and a series of sermons against it. This last was also done by the bishop of Novogorod, Gennadius]