rg, 332.
captures Marienburg, 333.
meets Catharine and privately marries her, 333.
defeats Charles XII., 339.
demands of, on Queen Anne, 341.
reply of Anne to, 342.
captures Livonia, 342.
desperate condition of, 343.
public marriage of, 345.
journeys of, 346.
residence in Paris, 349.
letters of, to Alexis, 351.
arraigns his son for high treason, 356.
effects a peace with Sweden, 360.
causes coronation of Catharine, 361.
death of, 362.
inscription on the tomb of, 368.
statue erected to, 440.

Peter II., regency of, 365.
death of, 366.

Peter III., succeeds Elizabeth, 377.
early life of, and acquaintance with Catharine, 380.
determines to repudiate Catharine, 390.
alarm of, on the escape of Catharine, 395.
abject humiliation of, 398.
abdication of, 399.
assassination of, 402.

Peterhoff, the palace of, 504.

Philip (of Macedon) conquers the Scythians, 18.

Plague, devastations of the, 419.

Poland, aid from, to Ysiaslaf, 80.
Stephen Bathori elected king, 261.
demands of, on Russia, 264.
conquests of, 255.
conquests of Alexis in, 295.
death of the king of, 298.
John Sobieski chosen king of, 298.
Stanislaus Leczinsky placed on the throne of, 335.
degeneration of, 414.
sliced by Russia, Austria and Prussia, 420.
rebellion in, 513.

Poles, rise of the, 513.

Polotsk, captured by Vlademer, 52.

Polovtsi, the nation of, 123.

Pope (Gregory VII.) promises to assist Ysiaslaf, 64.
letter of, to Ysiaslaf, 64.
letter of, to the king of Poland, 65.

Pope (Innocent III.) his letter to the Russian clergy, 102.

Poppel (Nicholas) visit of, to Russia, 184.
solicits the daughter of Ivan for Albert of Baden, 184.

Porphyrogenete, the emperor of Constantinople, 43.

Pugatshef, conspiracy of, 427.
execution of, 429.

Pultowa, battle of, 339.
festival, 346.

R.

Religion of the Sclavonians, 26.

Republicanism, first indication of, 131.

Rogneda, refusal of, to marry Vlademer, 51.
forced to marry Vlademer, 52.

Roman (prince of Smolensk) appointed prince of Novgorod, 92.

Romanow (Michael Feodor) elected emperor, 287.
marriage of, 290.
prosperous reign, and death, 291.

Rome purchases peace of the Sarmatians, 18.

Romish Church, its dominion over the Greek church, 102

Rostislaf succeeds to the throne of Russia, 18.
driven from the throne by Georges, 82.
expels Davidovitch from the throne, 83.
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