[Transcriber's Note: Bold text is surrounded by =equal signs= and italic text is surrounded by _underscores_.] Our Little Russian Cousin THE Little Cousin Series (TRADE MARK) Each volume illustrated with six or more full page plates in tint. Cloth, 12mo, with decorative cover per volume, 60 cents LIST OF TITLES BY MARY HAZELTON WADE, MARY F. NIXON-ROULET, BLANCHE MCMANUS, CLARA Y. WINLOW, FLORENCE E. MENDEL AND OTHERS Our Little African Cousin Our Little Alaskan Cousin Our Little Arabian Cousin Our Little Argentine Cousin Our Little Armenian Cousin Our Little Australian Cousin Our Little Austrian Cousin Our Little Belgian Cousin Our Little Bohemian Cousin Our Little Boer Cousin Our Little Brazilian Cousin Our Little Bulgarian Cousin Our Little Canadian Cousin Our Little Chinese Cousin Our Little Cuban Cousin Our Little Danish Cousin Our Little Dutch Cousin Our Little Egyptian Cousin Our Little English Cousin Our Little Eskimo Cousin Our Little French Cousin Our Little German Cousin Our Little Grecian Cousin Our Little Hawaiian Cousin Our Little Hindu Cousin Our Little Hungarian Cousin Our Little Indian Cousin Our Little Irish Cousin Our Little Italian Cousin Our Little Japanese Cousin Our Little Jewish Cousin Our Little Korean Cousin Our Little Malayan (Brown) Cousin Our Little Mexican Cousin Our Little Norwegian Cousin Our Little Panama Cousin Our Little Persian Cousin Our Little Philippine Cousin Our Little Polish Cousin Our Little Porto Rican Cousin Our Little Portuguese Cousin Our Little Russian Cousin Our Little Scotch Cousin Our Little Servian Cousin Our Little Siamese Cousin Our Little Spanish Cousin Our Little Swedish Cousin Our Little Swiss Cousin Our Little Turkish Cousin THE PAGE COMPANY 53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. [Illustration: PETROVNA.] Our Little Russian Cousin By Mary Hazelton Wade _Illustrated by_ L. J. Bridgman [Illustration] Boston The Page Company Publishers _Copyright, 1901_ BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (INCORPORATED) _All rights reserved_ Twelfth Impression, April, 1909 Thirteenth Impression, August, 1910 Fourteenth Impression, April, 1913 Fifteenth Impression, July, 1915 THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A. Preface A LARGE country, called Russia, lies in the eastern part of Europe. It stretches from the icy shores of the Arctic Ocean, on the north, to the warm waters of the Black Sea, on the south. Many of the children of this great country have fair skins and blue eyes. They belong to the same race as their English and American cousins, although they speak a different language.