History of Russia: From the Earliest Times to 1880 (Classic Reprint)FB&C Limited, 2018 M02 2 - 258 páginas Excerpt from History of Russia: From the Earliest Times to 1880 Primitive Population - The first inhabitants of Russia proper about whom anything is known were Slavonians. They belonged to the European branch of the great Scythian family. When they first settled in the country cannot be determined. At one time the territories of the race were very wide. The ancient Thracians are now thought to have belonged to it, probably with an intermixture of Pelasgic blood. So did the Dacians, the Mmsians, and other populations to the north of Thrace, as also the Venti of the Adriatic whom Caesar conquered. The names of many places in the Morea are the same with those of places in Pomerania and round Moscow, while its popular songs are more deeply tinged with Slavonian than with Grecian superstitions. After the fall of Rome, peoples of the Slavonic stock occupied the whole of Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia, as well as the lands betwixt the Danube and the Balkans. Their chief seats, however, were further north, between the Dnieper and the upper reaches of the Volga, coming west to the Baltic, and sending their offshoots on to the icy seas. Their neighbours gave them various names. The Scan dinavians called them the Vanar. To the Germans they were the Wenden. The Latins styled them the Veneta. The appellation they took themselves was that of Sirbi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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. |
