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 Dynasties (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Before 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?

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