e) forced to marry Vladimir, 55.
Christian influence of, over her husband, 57.
death of, 58.

Anne (of England) letter of, to Peter the Great. 342.

Anne (Duchess of Courland) offered the throne, 366.
energy of, 367.
death of, 368.

Anecdote of the preservation of the Greek libraries, 19.
of the love of Igor, 32.
of the Tartar's theology, 127.
of Vassili and the Greek physician, 201.
of Peter the Great, 311.
of Peter the Great, 320.
of Peter III., 385.

Appanages abolished by Andre, 111.

Ascolod and Dir, enterprise and conquests of, 29.
conversion of, 29.
assassination of, 31.

Astrachan added to Russia, 244.

Athens taken by the Goths, 19.

Attila the king of the Huns, conquests of, 21.

Avars, conquests of the, 22.

Aristocracy, gradual rise of an, 25.

B.

Bajazet II., letter of Ivan to, 186.
reply of, 188.

Baptism of the Russian nation in a day, 56.
in Lithuania, 155.

Barbarians, punishment of the, 87.

Bathori (Stephen) elected King of Poland, 262.

Bati given the command of the Tartar horde, 119.
depopulates Rezdan, 119.
captures Moscow, 120.
takes and burns Vladimir, 122.
disastrous course of, 123.
plunders Kief, 124.
possessions of, 125.
orders Yaroslaf to appear before him, 125.
summons Alexander, 127.
death of, 128.
Berki succeeds, 128.

Bayadour, chief of the Mogols, 113.

Beards ordered to be removed, 327.

Belsky (Ivan) elected regent of Russia, 209.
reforms of, 209.
assassination of, 212.

Bielo (Ozero Sineous) establishes his court at, 27.

Bielski (Bogdan) his attempt to grasp the throne, 270.
his exile, 271.

"Black Death," ravages of the, 144.

Bohemia, aid from, to Ysiaslaf, 80.

Bokhara burned by the Tartars, 116.

Boleslas, (King of Poland) assists Sviatopolk to defeat Yaroslaf, 59.
seizes the sister of Yaroslaf as his concubine, 59.
attempt to poison, 59.
forced to fly from Kief, 59.

Boleslas II. (of Poland) reception of Ysiaslaf by, 63.
robs Ysiaslaf and expels him, 63.
refunds the treasure, 65.

Bosporus, the Greeks plant their colonies along the shore of
the, 17.

Bulgaria conquered by Sviatoslaf, 46.
the capital conveyed from Kief to, 48.
conquered by Georges, 72.
condition of, 100;
expedition against, 101.

C.

Caucasus, the eagles of the Russians planted on the, 18.

Catharine I., first appearance of, 333.
public marriage of, with Peter, 345.