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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from The First Romanovs, (1613-1725): A History of Moscovite Civilisation and the Rise of Modern Russia Under Peter the Great and His ForerunnersIT will be my endeavour, in the following pages, to describe the social, ecclesiastical, and political conditions Of Eastern Europe from 1613 to 1725, and trace the gradual transformation, during the seventeenth century, of the semi-monastic, semi-barbarous Tsardom of Moscovy into the modern R...

Excerpt from The Pupils of Peter the Great: A History of the Russian Court and Empire From 1697 to 1740IN the following pages it will be my endeavour to follow out, step by step, the early development of the modern Russian State from the latter years of Peter the Great to the death of his niece, the Tsaritsa Anne, and I propose at the same time, to draw a picture Of the Imperial Court as it struck contemporary observers. The period chosen embr...

Excerpt from Gustavus III and His Contemporaries, Vol. 1 of 2: 1746-1792, An Overlooked Chapter of Eighteenth Century History, From Original DocumentsBoth his character and his circumstances made Gustavus III. Of Sweden one of the most interesting and extraordinary personages of his day. The political knight-errant, owhose restless spirit was such a disturbing element in Continental politics, the social reformer, who changed the customs and al...

Excerpt from Slavonic Europe: A Political History of Poland and Russia From 1447 to 1796Considerable attention is paid to political geography, and each volume is furnished with such maps and plans as may be requisite for the illustration of the text.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgott...

Excerpt from The Poor Plutocrats Translated From the HungarianThere is naturally not so much scope for the display of jokai's peculiar and delightful humour, in a novel of incident like the present tale as there is in that fine novel of mannersfz A Hungarian Nabob. Yet even in Szegény Gazdagok, manv of the minor characters the parasite Mar gari, the Old miser Demetrius, the Hungarian Miggs, Clementina, the frivolous Countess Ken gyelesy), are ...

Excerpt from Hans Christian Andersen: A BiographyA life of Hans Christian Andersen will, I venture to think, not be unwelcome in England. He is the one foreign author whom we can never regard as an alien, whom, from long familiarity and association, we have come to look upon as one of ourselves. His stories have been the delight of our children for three generations, and their popularity among us increases rather than diminishes as time goes o...

Excerpt from The Last King of Poland and His ContemporariesThe present volume aims at presenting a picture of the social, moral and intellectual condition of Polish society at the moment when the Polish State was about to disappear for ever from the map of Europe. The narrative will also, it is hoped, go far to explain how it was that Poland, originally the most chivalrous, high-spirited and promising of Republics, had, by the end of the eight...

Excerpt from Russian Fairy Tales, From the Skazki of PolevoiIt is from the first Russian edition of M. Polevoi's book that the following selection has been made. With the single exception of Morozko, a variant of which will be familiar to those who know Mr. Ralston's volume, none of these tales has seen the light in an English dress before, for though both Ralston and Polevoi drew, for the most part. From the same copious stock, their purposes...

Excerpt from Scandinavia: A Political History of Denmark, Norway and Sweden From 1513 to 1900Valdemar, no longer the Victorious, devoted himself ex elusively to internal administration and judicial reforms, well deserving the epithet Legislator bestowed upon him by his grateful subjects.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of...

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The Pupils of Peter the Great - A History of the Russian Court and Empire from 1697 to 1740 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientis...

Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk-Tales is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly...

Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, 1682-1719 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1895. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as anti...

Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk-Tales is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly...

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