. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. st be confessedthat there is good ground for the censures passed on the State m many ^^^ In modern times Russian writers have adopted the forms and emu-lated the successes of Western European Hterature. The names otRussian Kiiloff the fabuUst (1768-1844), Pushkin the poet (1799-1837),literature, Gogol (1809-1852), and Tourgenieff (1819-1883), the novehsts,are the most conspic
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. st be confessedthat there is good ground for the censures passed on the State m many ^^^ In modern times Russian writers have adopted the forms and emu-lated the successes of Western European Hterature. The names otRussian Kiiloff the fabuUst (1768-1844), Pushkin the poet (1799-1837),literature, Gogol (1809-1852), and Tourgenieff (1819-1883), the novehsts,are the most conspicuous. TEE Cossachs are another of the numerous races that own the swayof the Czar. They are even more mixed in race than the Russiansproper. As frontier warUke tribes, they partake of the character of allFrontier the peoples with whom they have come in contact. As onewarriors, gxp^essive account says, Tartar tyranny exasperated a medleyof refugees into making a stand on the Russiail border. They kid-napped Tartar wives; they made forays against Turks wherever theycould find them. They were ready to be an armed barrier for ChristianRussia against the Moslem, if the Czars left them free to plundei:, and. i66 THE INHABITANTS OF EUROPE. allowed them self-government. The Cossacks of the Dnieper, whofurnished history and romance with Mazeppa, were never thoroughlyidentified with Russia. They took the side of Poland at one time, thenof Charles XII. of Sweden ; and Peter the Great accomplished theirsubjugation. The Cossacks of the Don have many times asserted theirindependence of the Czar by violent rebellion, and were amongst themany victims of Ivan the Terrible. Theu- strength and their self-Partiaiin- assertion are proved by the quasi-independence they stilldependence, enjoy. They pay no direct taxes, and still hold their ownlegislative assemblies, which however are practically controlled from They have preserved the right to elect their own Ataman,or Het
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