Ivan the Terrible (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Waliszewski, Kazimierz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440086346 ISBN 13: 9781440086342

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2024

Synopsis

Peter the Great and Catherine the Great show us modern Russia, armed already, cap-a-pie, for all the conquests, moral or material, gained then or since. But this work, as all men know, possessed certain antecedents, and Peter gave himself out to be a follower of whom? His immediate predecessors we know the earliest Romanoffs, obscure sovereigns of anE mpire cut off from allE uropean contact, closed to all external influence, and incapable of evolving even a rudimentary civilization from its own elements. Going back further, to the closing years of the sixteenth century, we see the sinoutnoie vrenica (the troublous times )that is to say, disorder, anarchy, barbarism, darkness. Yet, looking closely, the sudden brightness of the eighteenth century was no dawn. For a rising sun the light was all too brilliant. Peter the Great was not mistaken. The darkness out of which his vivid genius flashed was only an eclipse. The internal and external development of the great Northern Empire seems to partake of the nature of the avalanche. At widely-parted intervals we have a sudden displacement of the centre of gravity, resulting in a swift movement forward, followed by a more or less lengthy period of immobility. This phenomenon has occurred several times already, and appearances are all in favour of its reproduction. The reason and the explanation are both very simple. The nation, in the performance of the mighty task laid upon it, was bound to meet with formidable obstacles, and consequently to make successive efforts. At this moment, and for the past twenty years, its progress has been apparently suspended internally, and checked on the lines it had previously pursued externally. About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mytho

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The author wrote several books on Russian history including Peter the Great and The Romance of an Empress: Catherine II of Russia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2024
• ISBN 10: 1440086346
• ISBN 13: 9781440086342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 450