Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1929, Page 110

[} souvaRY TRAVELER WENDING HIS WAY THROUGH A RUSSIAN FOREST HAS BEEN CATTACKED BY A PACK | OF RAVENOUS WOLVES. ¥ | FoRTUNATELY FOR HIM, WHE HisTORY OF RUSSIA DATES FrOM 862, ADNHEN A NORSE SEA ROVER NAMED RURIK LANDED ON THE EAST- [ aving securep PorTs ONTHE BLACK SEA RUSSIA CAME IN TOUCH WITH THE BYZANTINE-GREEK EMPIRE | AND A BRISK TRADE BETWEEN THE RUSSIANS AND THE MERCHANTS OF CONSTANT I - NOPLE- WAS STARTED. ‘r CERTAIN TIMES THE RUSSIAN DUKES HAD To JOURNEY 7O THE MONGOL COURT IN ASIA AND PAY HOMAGE To THE GREAT KHAN OF TARTARY, THEE MONGOL EMPEROR; v/ YA HELP 'S CLOSE AT HARD. . [gmrist HE FINNS,A NEIGHBORING TRIBE CALLED THE NORTHMEN "Rous; AND INTIME RURIIKS KINGDOM CAME TO BE KNOWN AS “RouS A" OR "RUSSIA”. e EN THE 10™™ CENTURY TME GREEIL CATHOLIC FORM OF CHRISTIANITY WAS INTROPUCED INTO RUSSIA AND BECAME THE STATE RELIGION , —- o @McClure Newspaper Syndic: E ME EFFECT OF THE MONGOL IN- VASIONS WAS To CUT RUSSIA OFF FROM SOUTHERN ANP WESTERN FUROPE . THE RUSSIANS ADOPTED MONGOL DRESSAND CUSTOMS, AND FOR CENTURIES RUSSIAN CULTURE- WAS MORE ORIENTAL THAN EUROPEAN. - o Ao 4 4 , /, K- 11NGs THAT FoLLowED RuRIK UNITED THE SLAVIC TRIBES ANID PUSHED THE BORDERS OF THE KINGDOM SOUTHWARD TO THE DNIEPER RIVER..- . B\ tHE 13™ cENTURY A HORDE OF MONGOLS (R TARTARS), FIERCE , ROVING HORSEMEN FROM THE PLAINS OF ASIA, SWEPT OVER RUSSIA AND SUBJUGATED THE WHOLE COUNTRY, BN TIME THE POWER OF THE MONGOLS DECLINED, WHILE THAT OF NHE RuSsIAN STATES STEADILY GREW,IN 1480 THE DUKE OFMOSCOW SLEW THE KHAN'S ENVOYS WHO CAME TO COLLECT THE TRIBUTE, AND THREW OFF THE MONGOL YOKE. ——| | B2 =Russian sTatest L} CRIES AND ARE cOMInG | T0 THE RESCUE. THEIR | FACES ARE HIDDEN 1y | THE PICTURE = —— - CANYOU FIND THEM 2 IN THE MIDDLE AGES. EATEQ,AS RUSSIA ACQUIRED MORE TERRITORY AND SPREAD SOUTH TO THE BLACK SEA THE KINGDOM BROKE UPINTO A NUMBER OF INDEPENDENT STATES,EACH RULED BY A DUKE. HE CONQUERING MONGOLS ALLOWED THE RUSSIANS TO KEEP THEIR OWN RELIGION AND LAWS BUT MADE THEM PAY A HEAVY YEARLY TRIBUTE TO BELEFT IN PEACE.—* INDEPENDENCE,THE DUKE OF MOS~ cow (IVANTH) FORCIBLY ANNEXED NOVGOROD, AND ESTABLISHED A NEW RUSSIAN KINGDOM, — o B FACI “~ ! NEXT CHAPTER — IVAN THE TERRIBLE, o