Russia as it is. By Count A. de Gurowski.
Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
Published: December 20, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781425532611
Subjects: American history; History; History - U.S.; History: American; USA; United States - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: VARIOUS deep or shallow metaphysical and psychological speculations have been laid down upon the reasons, in virtue of which the office and power of the Czar of Russia, with all its criteria of unity, despotism, autocracy, and, very often, of bloody, pitiless tyranny, has taken strong and seemingly indestructible root in the most vivid feelings of the Russian people of all classes and shades.