The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita583recl Year: 1883 NOVGOROD IN HER GLORY. 199 the northern autocrat. At that time ' Great Novgorod ' was the emporium of European trade with East Russia, and even with Asia. Through Lake Ilmen, the river Lovat, and the portages she communicated with the Volga, Dniester, and Dnieper basins ; by the river Volkkov and Lake Ladoga she commanded the highways of the Euxine and Gulf of Finland. Her commercial and colonising settlements stretched from Lapland to the Urals. But while well situated for Via; 97.—Kiev: The Goldkn Gate. defensive purpo
The earth and its inhabitants .. . earthitsinhabita583recl Year: 1883 NOVGOROD IN HER GLORY. 199 the northern autocrat. At that time ' Great Novgorod ' was the emporium of European trade with East Russia, and even with Asia. Through Lake Ilmen, the river Lovat, and the portages she communicated with the Volga, Dniester, and Dnieper basins ; by the river Volkkov and Lake Ladoga she commanded the highways of the Euxine and Gulf of Finland. Her commercial and colonising settlements stretched from Lapland to the Urals. But while well situated for Via; 97.—Kiev: The Goldkn Gate. defensive purposes, her distance from the sea protecting her from sudden inroads, Novgorod did not enjoy equal advantages for aggressive warfare. Most of her territory was unproductive and almost uninhabited, and intercepted caravans might reduce her to a state of famine. The city was torn by the dissensions of the powerful families and trade rivalries, and this internecine strife encouraged the great princes of Moscow to extend their power from the Kremlin to Novgorod.
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