{ "item_title" : "A History of Russia", "item_author" : [" W. R. Morfill "], "item_description" : "Sixteen chapters and twelve maps carrying the tsars from Peter's boyhood to the bomb that killed Alexander II, by the man who held Britain's first chair of Russian.William Richard Morfill (1834 - 1909) wrote grammars of Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbian, and Bulgarian, became Oxford's first Reader in Russian in 1889 and its first Professor of Russian and the other Slavonic languages in 1900, and was elected to the British Academy in 1903. A History of Russia came from Methuen in 1902, and it reads like the work of a philologist who turned to history: careful with sources, unhurried over each reign, and as interested in the church and the countryside as in courts and campaigns.He opens with Peter's early years and the making of a modern state, then follows Anne, Elizabeth, Catherine the Second, Paul, Alexander I, and Nicholas I through struggles with Sweden, Poland, Napoleon, and the sultan, and ends with the freeing of the serfs and the killing of Alexander II in 1881. A closing summary brings matters to 1899, and a last chapter traces the spread of Russian rule eastward. The twelve maps and plans lay out those frontiers and battles as Morfill's own readers first met them.This edition features: The complete 1902 Methuen text in sixteen chapters, running from the 1670s through to the year 1881Twelve maps and plans showing frontiers, battles, and the growing reach of the tsars' landsWritten by the first holder of Oxford's chair of Russian and the other Slavonic languages, elected FBA in 1903Reign-by-reign coverage of Anne, Elizabeth, Catherine the Second, Paul, and both AlexandersA closing survey of Alexander III and Nicholas II down to 1899, and of the eastward spread of Russian rule", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/52/870/453/1528704533_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "28.99", "online_price" : "28.99", "our_price" : "28.99", "club_price" : "28.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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