Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-09-27
EMPIRE OF ALLTHE RUSSIANS
MANY RACES RULED OVER BY
THE GREAT WHITE CAR.
Embraces Forty Distinct Peoples Who
Speak More Than One Hundred
Languages and Dialects : er,quests
of Ivan the Terrible.


may he grouped as follows:
Slavonic the people OF Russia
proper and the Poles. There are FIVE
| territorial divisions among the Rus
sian people Gnehiding the Cossacks)
and two grouped with the Poles. the
latter Servians and Buigarians.
I.ithuanians and Lettonians.
Wallachians (of the Latin race)
Four groups of Iranian peoples,
namely: ArmenianS. Kurds. Persians
| and Ossentinians
Indo-European peoples. namely.
Greeks. gypsies. Swedes. Germans.
Caucasians. namely: Georgians,
Lesghi. Kistis and Tcherkess.
Finnish people. seventeen divisions.
Jews
Tartar peoples, nine divisions.
Mongols, ten divisions. including
the Anus or Hairy Kuriles," and all
other people of Oriental blood in ST.
IBERIA and in the Pacific provinces.
SlaVonic people, including the Poles,
Servians and Bulgarians. 100000
| Tartars, including the Usbegs and
eight other divisions, 100000: eau
casian races, 100000; Turkestan and
| Trans Caspian people, 5000, zoe; Jews,
| 100000; Roumanians. iDcluding the
/ Karakalpak and Serbs, 1900, 900;
Lesghi. Georgians and Ossentinians,
| 100000: Armenians and other Iran
ian races, 100000; Germans 1 $780,
600; Mongolians, including the Anus
or Hairy Kuriles,' and all other pee
| pie of Oriental blood. 1000, o0e;
Swedes, 100000; Gypsies, Persians,
Kurds and Sarts, 270OOO; Samoyedes,
10000; all other races about 100000.
In 1899, before Russia had advanced
TO occupy Mongolia and Manchuria.
Vladimir Holstrem. of the ST. Peters
j burg Viedomosti wrote the following
for the New York Independent
The great Car of Moscow, Ivan
the Terrible, who, nearly $50 years
before Peter the Great had sketched
out for that Russian reformer his
plan, of action, fought Sweden and
Poland in the west and subdued the
Tartar Kingdoms. of Kazan and AS
trakhan in the east The name of
Russia rang throughout the whole of
Asia, and her chief princes and the
khan of Siberia voluntarily acknowl-
edged the supremacy of Russia, send
ing ambassadors 10 Moscow and pay
ing tribute to the Gear.
After the conquest Of the Tartar
/ kingdom Of Kazan. in 1852. the SUI
premacy of Russia was acknowledged
by the numerous tribes of Bashkirs
dwelling eastward of the Volga and
forming link with the tribes toward
the Aral Sea. Russias possession of
Western Siberia was assured to her In
less than half century. In the same
wonderful way Russia's progress
across Siberia to the very shores Of
the Pacific was accomplished in lit
tie more than so years
About 1904 Russia entered into a.
mutually binding agreement with
powerful Mongolian khan of Southern
Siberia. to keep open access to China.
Soon afterward, in 1919. the Emperor
of China sent his first embassy to
Russia In 1888 tea was first intro
duced into Europe Tin this matter
Russia was before England). During
the next twenty years all the regions
/ to the north and northwest Of Siberia.
all its northern river system and the
Arctic Coast were explored.
"A Cossack expedition. 730 strong.
dispatched from Yakutsk, reached the
river Amur. and. following its course,
discovered in 1913 the straits of Tar
tary and the Sea of Okhotsk. Now
the whole of Siberia was in Russias
hands; everywhere, on the principal
rivers up tosthe Arctic Circle and be-
yond It, and the natives acknowledged
Russian supremacy, and paid tribute.
An adventurous trader from va
! kutsk conceived the idea Of opening
for Russia the region about the Amur
and the ShiIka rivers. and gathering
| together a following of $50 men with
| two cannons. accomplished. in some
| two years the task This took place
in 1854. The strengthening of the
southern boundary of Siberia the TAX
| ing of Irkhursk, the building of Nsr-
| tchinsk and attempts at establishing
direct communication between Central
Siberia and the Far East by way of
the Amur and the ShiIka soon fol-
| lowed.
'sThe work OF subduing the Russian
Kirghiz in Central Asia, the Kalmuck
and the MongoT tribes lasted until
! the end Of the sixteenth century. and
although the once powerful kingdoms
and empires of the Asiatic continent
were completely broken up. yet con.
[ slant strife with various tribes of the
steppes continued through the seven
teenth. eighteenth and well on into
the nineteenth century. the KAYAKS
| giving more trouble These KAYAKS
are Of Turkic (noe Osmanlil origin
and are nearly related to the Cos
| sacks on the enc hand. and the Rus
sian Kirghiz tribes on the other.
Their power was finally broken
when in the second half of the pres
| ent century the Russians subdued
Turkestan. conquered the khanare of
Khiva, took Tashkent and Samark-
and and Brought under their. sway the
! khanates CT Bckhara and Kokan,
thereby rounding out their posses
siaiis in Central Asia
There was no special plan adopted
for this wonderful progress through
two continents. 1t developed itself
under the pressure Of circumstances
and the influence of that best of
! guides-iustinct Cossacks. traders
and settlers spread over the plains
of Siberia and the steppes of Central
Asia by way. of that river system
which is Siberia's greatest opportuni-
ty and her best chancs for the attain
ment Of a wonderful degree of pros
perity. The ultimate object of this
expansion was that Russia was al
| ways seeking for an outlet to The open
! sea
During these hundred years Russia