The Mongols in Russia

Name: The Mongols in Russia
Author: Curtin, Jeremiah
Curtin, Jeremiah
Mongols -- Russia; Russia -- History -- To 1533
THE MONGOLS IN RUSSIA

                                       BY

                                JEREMIAH CURTIN

     AUTHOR OF “THE MONGOLS, A HISTORY,” “MYTHS AND FOLK-LORE OF IRELAND,”
    “HERO-TALES OF IRELAND,” “MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES OF THE RUSSIANS, WESTERN
        SLAVS, AND MAGYARS,” “CREATION MYTHS OF PRIMITIVE AMERICA,” ETC.



                                     BOSTON
                           LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

                                      1908








                                   THIS WORK
                          AS WAS ITS COMPANION VOLUME
                             The Mongols, A History
                                IS DEDICATED TO
                               Theodore Roosevelt
                         PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES








    NOTE

    In gathering material for “The Mongols” and “The Mongols in
    Russia,” Mr. Curtin used the early chronicles of China, Persia, and
    Russia. To obtain these chronicles he went several times to Russia
    and once to the Orient.








CONTENTS


CHAPTER I                                                          PAGE

    Kurultai held by Ogotai.—Sarai, the Mongol capital.—Patriarchal
    system of Russia.—Rurik, 862.—Death of Rurik, 879.—Oleg,
    successor of Rurik.—Askold and Dir.—Oleg takes Kief.—Expedition
    against Constantinople.—First Russian treaty.—Death of Oleg,
    912.—Reign of Igor.—Attacks on the Byzantine Empire, 941,
    944.—Murder of Igor, 945.—Olga avenges the murder of her
    husband.—Reign of Olga.—Succession of Sviatoslav, 957.—Olga
    receives Christianity.—The Kazars.—Sviatoslav controls
    Bulgaria.—Kief attacked by Petchenegs.—Death of
    Olga.—Sviatoslav divides his inheritance.—Second war with
    Bulgaria.—Murder of Sviatoslav, 972.—Dispute between the sons
    of Sviatoslav.—Yaropolk becomes master of Russia.—Vladimir
    takes Polotsk.—Blud betrays Yaropolk.—Vladimir becomes Prince
    of Kief.—Religion of Russia.—Marriage of Vladimir with Anna,
    sister of the Greek Emperor.—Death of Vladimir,
    1015.—Vladimir’s twelve sons.—Sviatopolk seizes power.—Murder
    of Boris and Glaib.—Defeat of Sviatopolk.—Sviatopolk seeks
    assistance in Poland.—Sviatopolk defeated a second
    time.—Mystislav appears before Kief.—Mystislav takes
    Novgorod.—Battle of Listven.—Yaroslav enters Kief.—Yaroslav
    becomes Grand Prince, 1016.—Death of Mystislav, 1035.—Yaroslav
    frames a code of laws.—Arranges the succession.—Death of
    Yaroslav the Lawgiver, 1054.—Russia divided between the sons of
    Yaroslav.—Izyaslav Prince of Kief.—Vseslav the Wizard.—Vseslav
    imprisoned by Izyaslav.—Polovtsi cross the boundary of
    Pereyaslavl, 1055.—Peace made by the Polovtsi.—Polovtsi defeat
    the Russian princes.—Kief dissatisfied with Izyaslav.—Kief
    reënstates Izyaslav.—Izyaslav driven from Kief a second
    time.—Sviatoslav becomes Grand Prince.—Izyaslav’s son visits
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