In this volume you will find 27 uniquely Slavonic and Cossack stories like "The Story Of Unlucky Daniel", "The Vampire And St Michael", "The Tsar And The Angel", "The Story Of Ivan And The Daughter Of The Sun" and more not heard in the west for many a year. This volume of stories has been selected from a Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales. The language is Ruthenian, or the language of the Cossacks. This was the first translati...
This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that e...
This book, from the series Primary Sources: Historical Books of the World (Asia and Far East Collection), represents an important historical artifact on Asian history and culture. Its contents come from the legions of academic literature and research on the subject produced over the last several hundred years. Covered within is a discussion drawn from many areas of study and research on the subject. From analyses of the varied geography that e...
Excerpt from Scandinavia: A Political History of Denmark, Norway and Sweden From 1513 to 1900
Valdemar, 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.
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Excerpt from Russian Fairy Tales, From the Skazki of Polevoi
As to the merits of these Séazéz', they must be left to speak for themselves. It is a significant fact, however, that scholars who are equally familiar with the Russian Séazéi and the German Mfirc/len unhesitatingly give the palm, both for to the former.
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Excerpt from The Poor Plutocrats Translated From the Hungarian
Szegeny Gazdagok is, perhaps, the most widely known of all Maurus Jokai's masterpieces. It was first published at Budapest, in 1860, in four volumes, and has been repeatedly translated into German, while good Swedish, Danish, Dutch and Polish versions sufficiently testify to its popularity on the Continent. Essentially a tale of incident and adventure, it is one of the best novels...
Excerpt from Slavonic Europe: A Political History of Poland and Russia From 1447 to 1796
Considerable 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.
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Excerpt from Hans Christian Andersen: A Biography
A 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...
Excerpt from Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales
Introduction TO the first edition HE favourable reception given to my volume of Russian Fairy Tales has encouraged me to follow it up with a sister volume of stories selected from another Slavonic dialect extraordinarily rich in folk-tales - I mean Ruthenian, the language Of the Cossacks.
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Excerpt from The Pupils of Peter the Great: A History of the Russian Court and Empire From 1697 to 1740
In 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 em...
Excerpt from The First Romanovs, (1613-1725): A History of Moscovite Civilisation and the Rise of Modern Russia Under Peter the Great and His Forerunners
It 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...
Excerpt from The Last King of Poland and His Contemporaries
The 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 eig...
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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 p...
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...
