The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present Time

CHAPTER I.

PARENTAGE AND BIRTH OF RUSSIA.

From 500 B.C. to A.D. 910.

Primeval Russia.--Explorations of the Greeks.--Scythian Invasion.--Character of the Scythians.--Sarmatia.--Assaults Upon the Roman Empire.--Irruption of the Alains.--Conquests of Trajan.--The Gothic invasion,--The Huns--their Character and Aspect.--The Devastations of Attila.--The Avars.--Results of Com...