History of Russia from the foundation of the empire by Rourick to the close of the Hungarian war, by A. Rabbe and J. Duncan, Volume 1Ingram, 1854 |
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Page 32 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 155 - The Duke of Orleans, Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV...
Page 204 - Gregory Orloff, one of his brothers, and his friend Bibikoff, repaired to the barracks to prepare the soldiers of their party to act at the first signal ; while another brother of Orloff, Alexis, hastened to Peterhoff to find the empress.
Page 257 - French," masculine in her tastes, her gait and her exploits, was still more so in her titles and functions of director of the Academy of Sciences and president of the Russian Academy. It is well known that she long solicited Catherine to appoint her colonel of the guards, a post in which she would undoubtedly have acquitted herself better than most of those by whom it was held.
Page 221 - ... believe that he was going to espouse her cause and make her Empress of Russia. One day she went on board his ship at Leghorn. At first she was treated with the honors proper to royalty, but was suddenly arrested, loaded with irons, confined in the hold, and carried off to Russia. On arriving there she was thrown into a fortress, and treated in the most barbarous manner. Six years afterwards she perished in her prison, during an inundation of the Neva. Such is the legend. We pass on now to the...
Page 255 - North offered to entire Europe portraitures unrivalled in all that the cynicism of power has displayed in the exaggerated and the odious. The abominations of a Tiberius, the debaucheries of a Heliogabalus, all the impure traditions of degenerate and degraded Rome, do not strike the imagination with more astonishment.
Page 134 - The punishment of the wheel, it is said, was yet unknown to him ; and he desired to see some wretch expire under this torture. As there was no criminal in the prisons who merited this punishment, he offered one of his own slaves ; and it is added that he could not understand why the magistrates refused him that...
Page 60 - My brethren, the Great God of Heaven has appeared to me in a vision, seated on a throne of fire, surrounded by celestial beings, and judging all the nations of the earth. I heard him give the empire of the world to Temudsehin, and proclaim him King of kings.
Page 230 - This assemblage of peaceable and inoffensive men shall live in my empire, because, of all catholic societies, they are the best qualified to instruct my subjects, and to inspire them with sentiments of humanity and the genuine principles of the Christian religion. I am resolved to support these priests against every power whatever ; and, in so doing, I only perform my duty, as I am their sovereign, and look upon them as faithful, useful, and innocent subjects. I am so much the more desirous...
Page 64 - The latter were allowed to reign, paying tribute ; and no prince, from the time of Yaroslaf II. to that of Ivan III., dared to arrogate regal powers without having first paid homage to the Khan as his suzerain. It is said that they took the oath of fidelity on their knees, and in terms of abject servility ; and this degradation was continued for more than two centuries—namely, from the commencement of the thirteenth to the middle of the fifteenth century.