Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . k, Murom, Vladimir ia RUSSIA 41 Volliynia, and even Tniutorakau in north Caucasia,was the most hrilliant time for Kiotl. The motherof the Kussian towns jriew to he a i)()])ulous oily,visited hy numoroiis caravans of merchants, andAdam of Ihenien descrilud it as a rival to thesnpreMiaoy of Constantino])k!. Tlie great cathoihalof St Sophia was hnilt at that time : as also manyotiier churches. Schools were opened, and the lii-stwritten Russian law—tlie Kusskaya Pravda, or,at least, its essential parts—was compiled. It eor- responils
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge . k, Murom, Vladimir ia RUSSIA 41 Volliynia, and even Tniutorakau in north Caucasia,was the most hrilliant time for Kiotl. The motherof the Kussian towns jriew to he a i)()])ulous oily,visited hy numoroiis caravans of merchants, andAdam of Ihenien descrilud it as a rival to thesnpreMiaoy of Constantino])k!. Tlie great cathoihalof St Sophia was hnilt at that time : as also manyotiier churches. Schools were opened, and the lii-stwritten Russian law—tlie Kusskaya Pravda, or,at least, its essential parts—was compiled. It eor- responils to the leges barbarorum of the ancient(Jcrinans and Scandinavians. IJy the end of hislife Yaroslav was ruling over most of the K\, and his daughters were married, one to theking of Poland, another to Ilarolii in Norway, athir<l to Henry 1. in France, and a fourtli to theking of Hungary. He died in 1054. The next two centuries of Kussian history cor-respond to the feudal period of western Kuro]) the annals they appear as an nninternipted. 1. Princiijality of Moscow under Daniel, 1303. 2. Acquisitifjlis of Vuriy, Ivan Kalita, and Dmitri Donskoi, , 4 .. tlie two Vassili, HOd. 5, 0. .. Ivan III. ami Vassili Ivanovitcli, 7. .. Ivan IV. tin- TorriWe, 15S4. 8. .. Mikliail Iloinanotl. 1045. 9. .. Alexci Mikhailovitcli, 1076. Historical Map of Russia: 10. Acquisitions of Petor 1725. II, 12. ., Anna and EIiznl>otll, 1762. 13. ., Catliarinc II., 14. .. Iaul I., 1801. ir,. „ Alexander I., 1825. 18. .? 1., 1856. 17. ?. Alexander II., 18S1. 15. •. the peiirxl 1730-1S45. succession of jietty wars hetween the descendant.)of Yaroslav for the right of ruling in this or thatcity, or for the supremacy at Kiel!. But modernresearch has disclosed the real characters of theepoch. The at that time were steadily extending their territory towards the east; theycolonised the <*ka, the Don, and the Iinnish terri-tories in the nor
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