. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across fellunder the influence of BorisGodounofE, his brother-in-law, who assumed full pow-er after a time, and renewedthe relations with England which had been suspended for a while. Godounoff obtained the throneby poisoning or exiling several of his relatives who stood in his way oropposed his projects. Feodor is believed to have died of poison ; he wasthe Czar from 1584 to 1598, but for the last ten years of this period hehad practically no voi
. The boy travellers in the Russian empire: adventures of two youths in a journey in European and Asiatic Russia, with accounts of a tour across fellunder the influence of BorisGodounofE, his brother-in-law, who assumed full pow-er after a time, and renewedthe relations with England which had been suspended for a while. Godounoff obtained the throneby poisoning or exiling several of his relatives who stood in his way oropposed his projects. Feodor is believed to have died of poison ; he wasthe Czar from 1584 to 1598, but for the last ten years of this period hehad practically no voice in State affairs. With his death the House ofRurik became extinct. Does the House of Romanoff, the present rulers of Russia, beginwhere that of Rurik ended V the Doctor asked. Not exactly, was the reply, as there was an interval of nineteenyears, and a very important period in the history of the Empire. Severalpretenders to the throne had appeared, among them Demetrius, who isknown in history as the Impostor. He married a Polish lady, and itwas partly through her intrigues that Moscow fell into the hands of thePoles. And how were they driven out?. ALEXIS MICHAILOVITCH, FATHKR OF PETER THE GREAT. 220 THE BOY TRAVELLERS IN THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. A butcher or cattle-dealer of JSTijni Novgorod, named Minin, gathereda small army under the belief that he was ordered by Heaven to free hiscountry from the invaders. He persuaded Piince Pojarsky to lead thesesoldiers to Moscow, and togetlier they started. Their force increased asthey advanced, and finally they expelled the Poles and redeemed the capi-tal. The names of Minin and Pojarsky are very prominent in Eussianhistory. Monuments at Moscow and Nijni Novgorod commemorate the action of these patrioticmen, and tell the story oftheir work in behalf oftheir country. The incident on whichGlinkas opera, A Life forthe Czar, is based belongsto this period, when thePoles overran Russia. TheCzar who was saved wasMichael Feodorovitch, thefirst o
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