Early Russian History
Four Lectures Delivered at Oxford, in the Taylor Institution, According to the Terms of Lord Ilchester's Bequest to the University (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Early Russian History: Four Lectures Delivered at Oxford, in the Taylor Institution, According to the Terms of Lord Ilchester's Bequest to the University<br><br>Dinner in Russia is preceded by a zakuska, a snack designed to whet the appetite. The present volume is intended to act as a kind of literary zakuska. I trust that it may not be altogether unsuccessful in whetting the appetite of the reading public for Russian history: towards satisfying it so slight a book can, of course, render but scant service. There is little in the following pages beyond the text of four lectures delivered at Oxford during the spring of this year, and into four lectures no very exhaustive analysis of a large subject can well be compressed.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.