The History Of Russia From The Earliest Times To 1877

Author : Alfred Rambaud
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458920812
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The History of Russia from the Earliest Times To 1877 written by Alfred Rambaud and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IL ETHNOGRAPHY OF RUSSIA. Greek Colonies and the Scythia of Herodotus--The Russian Slavs of Nestei--Lithuanian, Finnish, and Turkish hordes in the ninth century--Divisioa of the Russians proper into three branches--How Russia was colonized. GREEK COLONIES AND THE SCYTHIA OF HERODOTUS. The early Greeks had established factories and founded flourishing colonies on the northern shores of the Black Sea. The Milesians and Megarians built Tomi or Kustenje, near the Danube, Istros at its mouth. Tyras at that of the Dniester, Odessos at that of the Bug, Olbia at that of the Dnieper, Chersonesos or Cherson on the roadstead of Sebastopol, Palakion which afterwards became Balaclava, Theodosia which became Kaffa, Panticapea (Kertch), and Phanagoria on the two shores of the Strait of lenikale, Tanais at the mouth of the Don, Apatouros in the Kuban, Phasis, Dioscurias, Pityus at the foot of the Caucasus, on the coast of ancient Colchis. Panticapea, Phanagoria and Theodosia formed, in the 4th century B.C., a confederation with a hereditary chief called the Archon of the Bosphorus at its head, whose authority was also acknowledged by some of the barbarous tribes. Russian archaeologists, and quite recently, M. Ouvarof, have brought to light many monuments of Greek civilization, funeral pillars, inscriptions, bas-reliefs, statues of gods and heroes. We know that the colonists carefully preserved the Greek civilization, cultivated the arts of their mother cities, repeated the poems of Homer as they marched to battle, loved eloquent speeches as late as the time of Dion Chrysostom, and offered a special cult to the memory of Achilles. Beyond the line of Greek colonies dwelt a whole world of tribes, whom the Greeks designated by the common name of Scythians, with whom t...