The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-15
or THE CARS
History Of the Great
Russian Nation.
/ TOOK coNsTANTlNopLE.


x Guareorsd ~ chs Cevetsns
Csnvszstsn - Christianity.
I.
IN rHx PAsr.
- : land containing over eight
~ ma hall square miles-tha il,
- e ~ dry land Of the globe;
81 : country which stretches from
- - % the shores Of the Pacific.
SPECULATION forming compact,
fcdy; imagine . single unit q
80 With the great diversity Of the
- roxions. . land uniform in its
-. bat still presenting . striking
- s the rest OF the world. and you
- spproximately an idea about the
i11r u the cxars: approximately, for
= s. land ia the world which Is 90
= 1a1ted shout and yet SO little known
md there IL no nation so inter-
11e1use OF the mystery surround
y the great 6lsv people. It Is the
z ~ unknown. says Sir Charles
IA s such it viii always excite our
1f<y.
~ land OF myssery ies me iesa y0us
II ~ - lift the ven z little: ies the
OWs q Jonn the terrible, % reser tne
4 Catherine the Courtesan. appear
~ ~ eyes: let the pest become the
- ana let the present Be IS truthful
1919. The reader il undoubtedly
Ia a4are tnat hussiA = : oahS
~. and that the Saws are-so SPEAK
youngest people among the
- Europe. Inougn tne youngests
~ regarded with oreao py tncn
1oes, ana tnere are many
- Who THINK tnat the niass'
ecinliy the kussians, are the coming
~ The Russians themselves oelieve
LII destiny y % oveffun EUROPE
nd Africa, ana form OF tnese snree
~ The old world - molly Russia
I'll the truth, there are aiso more
~ PATRIOTS VINO tnlnk tnas Russia
70 b satisned with Europe ana Asia
There are also stiu more modest
Qho assert that with India, Turkey,
81 Austris and the eastern provinces
RnAny, Russia ought 70 % satlsned.
1ssf. Russia's destiny Is great. and her
= tremendous. The modest" wishes
PATRIOTS viii In ell proDaoiiity oe not
-, and Russia may have her hands
- defend her own territory:
~ power Il so great. and her
ING force 90 immense that the coun-
which would wage : war with her
"a run . very great risk. Bismarck
open that hence his efforts were always
I'D TO preserve peace Win RUSSIA.
ampaigns OF the Poles. IN the time OF
op-called kseudo-Deme'rns. the M
- of Charles XII. OF sweden, and
the celebrated campaign OF Napo-
- show that Russia 10 deiended ~
<9y immensity. and by . patriotic and
Ngeous people.
IN the Nihiiists executed Aiexanoef
error seized the hearts OF al the
rchs OF Europe; wnen KEENAN, ex-
ne horrors OF the RUSSIAN prisons =
indignation rose ell over the clviiized
when Ioisioi became known with
War and Peace. the wondering
= stood astonlsned; ana when
shagln exnioased ais reahsnc
lres o. tne 1kusso-Aur kisn war. the
as Of the west aWoke 20 the im-
Rnce OF the nations OF the East
- became more interesting tnan ever.
wnen does Inc importance Oh
- dafe. ana TOT now many years mas
netory Of the country OF the CARS
SUCH m imporssnt role IN the poii-
q the woria 4 "na Wy ~ answer IL
sne val OF the pass oe Aised lot :
ent.
eougn very young ~ 1uropean poiiics:
eia y IN certain Respects amos! = oio
ome o. tne western nations. Dus une
oon % sne county, sne INVASION OF
tartarss constant Wsfs WIN fo'ano
nave KEPT nussis IN me oacA founo.
ooiy SINCE Inc tlme OF fesex the Urea.
RUSSIA assumes An importance ana
seniy emerses irom the oasAness iiks :
q tne nrst magnituoe.
re sexed quesuon over the oeiivauon
ae word Russia WIZ IN al pIooaoiity
&c settied-at least II VIII not De
% identiying tne Russians "'tn
a.0sdHs y now almost anandoned. many
ue!n wnssIs sMrm mat the "ofo Is
= we finnish huosss' ana tnas woro. &C
u'ne 70 PROFESSOR thompson o1 oopei',
y notn'ng else put the corruption o.
Dseuisn 'osasiae"h OF ro1er ne
- lesen1 Oh 'ne 1nree Dfo'ners, Aecn
sau NUS, - simply my'n, Ac-
s - .ne .nlonicie % Nes'oI, soue
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