The Eastern Question

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Excerpt from The Eastern Question: A Brief History of Russia, From the Small Beginnings of the Nation to the Present Vast Proportions of the Empire, With Accounts of the Successive DynastiesBefore the ninth century, Novgorod, a republic lying near the Gulf of Finland, had risen to great prominence, and its capital city of the same name, the republican mother of a despotic em pire, had become so powerful that it was a com mon saying among the people, Who dare 0p pose God and Novgorod the Great?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.