# The Rise of the Russian Empire

Author: Saki, 1870-1916

Genre: Category: Russian Literature

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45099

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Rise+of+the+Russian+Empire+Saki&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Russia, which is blessed with a rich variety of tribes and peoples, the despair of the ethnographical geographer, who can scarcely find enough distinctive colours wherewith to denote them all on his maps, is characterised by a singular uniformity of physical conditions throughout the greater part of its huge extent. Geographically speaking, it is difficult to determine what are the exact limits of the region known as Russia-in-Europe, the Oural Mountains, which look such an excellent political barrier on paper, being really no barrier at all, certainly not what is known as a scientific frontier. As a matter of fact they are less a range of mountains than a chain of low table-lands, having...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/9/index.md)
- [part I accustomed myself to do everything that I might have ordered](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-rise-of-the-russian-empire-45099/chapters/2/index.md)