Excerpt from Under Three Tsars: Liberty of Conscience in Russia, 1856-1909The aim of this present work is to present an account of the advance made in that Empire since the Crimean War, towards the ideal of personal liberty 1n matters of religion.Some of the stories of suffering for Christ's sake cannot be perused without keen distress but several considerations demand that they shall be placed on record.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. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.