The world: historical and actual . K,*!|33oc£§—-sH HE great territory of Rus-sia first presents itself tothe historic ken in A. D-862. All previous eventsin that vast region mustforever remain matter ofconjecture. The first ob-ject which greets the eye is thebest. Russias aurora fills withastonishment the student of thepast, unprepared to discover inthat far-away land and time avigorous republic, Novgorod, call-ed the republican mother of amost despotic empire. This dawnof history was the slowly fadingtwilight of a liberty whose day wasclothed in mist, and whose lastlingering ray was darkened
The world: historical and actual . K,*!|33oc£§—-sH HE great territory of Rus-sia first presents itself tothe historic ken in A. D-862. All previous eventsin that vast region mustforever remain matter ofconjecture. The first ob-ject which greets the eye is thebest. Russias aurora fills withastonishment the student of thepast, unprepared to discover inthat far-away land and time avigorous republic, Novgorod, call-ed the republican mother of amost despotic empire. This dawnof history was the slowly fadingtwilight of a liberty whose day wasclothed in mist, and whose lastlingering ray was darkened by the night of des-potism. Novgorod the Great, not the great despoiler, butthe great republic, preceded the great of this period of early dawn, yet evening,Karamsin says: At that time the great republichad become so powerful that it was a common sayingamong its neighbors, Who can dare oppose God and Novgorod the Great? Its commerce, he con-tinues, extended to Persia, India, and to Constan-tinople. The nations
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