Russian History

Highlights of the History of Russia

Novgorad's Destruction — Destruction of Novgorod Veche
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Readings in the histories of Muscovy, Novgorad, The Soviet Union, and Russia as a whole by some of the greatest writers.

Some Years listed below are approximate.

Year	Title	Author(s)
988	Czar Vladimir Converts to Christianity	Andrew N. Mouravieff
1262	Tatars Conquer Russia	Alfred Rambaud
1348	The Black Death Reaches Europe	J. F. C. Hecker\| \|Giovanni Boccaccio
1500	Ivan the Great Unites Russia and Breaks the Tartar Yoke	Robert Bell
1581	The Cossacks Conquer Siberia	Nikolay M. Karamzin
1689	Peter the Great Suppresses the Streltsi	Alfred Rambaud
1703	St. Petersburg Founded	Kazimierz Waliszewski
1709	The Battle of Poltava	Kazimierz Waliszewski
1756-63	The Seven Years War	Wolfgang Menzel\| \|Frederick The Great
1762	Reign of Catherine the Great	W. Knox Johnson
1772	First Partition of Poland	James Fletcher
1794	Poland’s Downfall	Sir Archibald Alison
1805	Battle of Austerlitz	Pierre Lanfrey
1812	Napoleon’s Russian Retreat	Charles A. Fyffe\| \|Francois Guizot
1813	Leipzig Battle of the Nations	Wolfgang Menzel

Year	Title	Author(s)
1814	The Congress of Vienna 1814-15	Henry M. Stephens
1816	The Holy Alliance – European Reaction Under Metternich	Charles Edmund Maurice
1831	Poland 1831 Revolt	Alfred Rambaud
1855	Capture of Sevastopol Ends Crimean War	Edward B. Hamley\| \|Evelyn Wood
1861	Russian Serfs Freed	Andrew D. White\| \|Nikolai Turgenieff
1867	The Alaska Purchase	Charles Sumner
1873	Communist International 1864-1873	Thomas Kirkup
1877-1878	Russo-Turkish War 1877	Wilhelm Mueller
1878	The Berlin Congress of 1878	Stephen P.H. Duggan
1881	Russian Nihilism	Sergius Stepniak
1903	A Russian Pogrom Against the Jews	Richard Gottheil\| \|Vladamir Korolenko
1904	The Russo-Japanese War	Charles F. Horne\| \|Leo Tolstoy
1905	The Russian Revolution of 1905	Prince Peter Kropotkin\| \|Arthur Cassini
1910	Russia Absorbs Finland	John Jackol\| \|Baron Von Plehve\| \|Baron Sergius Witte\| \|J.N. Reuter

Year	Title	Author(s)
1911	The Strangling of Persia	W. Morgan Shuster
1912	Militarism Before World War I	Norman Angell\| \|Sir Max Waechter.
1941-45	The Russian Front in World War II	Video

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