World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey

by Eva March Tappan

Historical Fiction War & Military Fiction War & Military History Political Science

112 chapters16h 37mEnglish1914

About this book

This is the sixth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a comprehensive presentation of the world's history, art and culture, from the early times till the beginning of the 20th century. Topics in Part VI include the Russian Empire, the fights for independence in Hungary and the Balkan states and the politics of early Turkey. - Summary by Sonia Cast list for Wallenstein and the cuirassiers: Terzky: alanmapstone / Wallenstein: Foon / Anspessade: Tomas Peter / Second Cuirassier: Eva Davis / Third Cuirassier: Monika M.C. / Butler: Nemo / Narrator: Sonia

Chapters (112)

1Skirmish between cossacks and the imperial bodyguard, by Jean Baptiste Edouard Detaille, (France 1848), painting, frontispiece

120

2Russia Part I: Folk-tales and early history: Historical note

158

3The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy

507

4The story of iron and the poison water, from the Kalevala

440

5The country and customs of the Scythians (fifth century B.C.), by Herodotus

931

6The vengeance of Queen Olga (about 945), from the chronicle of Nestor

564

7Vladimir in search of a religion (about 988), by John S. C. Abbott

656

8Russia Part II: In the days of Ivan the Terrible: Historical note

170

9How Russia was freed from the Tartars (1480), by John S. C. Abbott

632

10Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), by Frances A. Shaw

886

11Life at the Setch (fifteenth century), by Nikolai V. Gogol

1391

12The false Czar (1605), by Frances A. Shaw

1125

13The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor

1030

14Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note

182

15A morning with Peter the Great (early in the eighteenth century), by Dmitri Merejkowski

1028

16How St. Petersburg was built (1703), by John S. C. Abbott

268

17A supposed letter from an English architect (1715), by Maurice Baring

891

18Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historical note

148

19A day with Catherine the Great (1794), by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski

789

20Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin

355

21The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers

501

22The crossing of the Beresina river (1812), by John S. C. Abbott

601

23Passage of the Beresina, by J. H. Van Papendrecht, painting p. 130

133

24Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note

184

25The surrender of Kamenyetz (1672), by Henryk Sienkiewicz

1251

26Poland or Russia ? (1793), by Jane Porter

937

27The division of Poland, by Sir Edwin Arnold

209

28The revolt in Warsaw, 1861, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 158

170

29Russia Part VI: Siberia: Historical note

132

30The conquest of Siberia (1579-1584), by Count Leo Tolstoy

1462

31Yermak, a folk-song

213

32How pardon was won for an exile (1808), by Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin

603

33On the march to Siberia (nineteenth century), by Baroness M. De Packh

544

34A Kirghis warrior, by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (Russia, 1842-1904), painting p. 186

144

35In a Tartar tent (about 1909), by Lindon Bates, Jr.

1069

36Russia Part VII: A coronation and three wars: Historical note

200

37The coronation of Alexander II (1855), by Count von Moltke

654

38The emancipation of the serfs (1861), by Hezekiah Butterworth

239

39The taking of the village (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vsyevolod Mikhailovitch Garshin

744

40The capture of a redoubt (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin

1082

41Coaling at sea (1905), by Commander Vladimir Semenoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy

1104

42Russia Part VIII: Life in modern Russia: Historical note

118

43The races on the Neva river (1870), by Théophile Gautier

599

44A little Jewish girl in Russia, by Mary Antin

566

45The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor

180

46Austria-Hungary Part I: From the Tartar invasion to the Reformation: Historical note

160

47The coming of the Tartars (1240), by Louis Felbermann

420

48How Rudolf the First became Emperor (1273), by John S. C. Abbott

939

49Stories of Rudolf, founder of the house of Hapsburg (thirteenth century), by William Coxe

634

50How Naumburg was saved, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, - 1878), painting p. 270

51The deliverance of Prague (1420), by E. H. Gillett

996

52A funeral menu of the sixteenth century (1509), from the old chronicles

290

53The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy, by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (German artist, 1820-1900), painting p. 284

168

54Austria-Hungary Part II: The religious wars of the seventeenth century: Historical note

130

55The devastation of St. Vitus's church (1619-1620), by Marie Hay

987

56Wallenstein, the deposed general (1630), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

439

57Wallenstein and the cuirassiers (1634), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

897

58How John Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks (1683), by John S. C. Abbott

606

59Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Historical note

179

60How Maria Theresa of Austria became King (1740), by John S. C. Abbott

680

61The command of Maria Theresa, by John S. C. Abbott

689

62Hohenlinden (1800), by Thomas Campbell

165

63The battle of Austerlitz (1805), by John S. C. Abbott

324

64How the French honored Joseph Haydn (1805), by ''Louisa Mühlbach'' (Klara M. Mundt)

638

65Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers, by Franz von Defregger (Austrian painter, 1835), painting p. 344

136

66Austria-Hungary Part IV: The nineteenth century: Historical note

147

67After the battle of Szolnok (1849), by Maurus Jókai

1105

68The unlucky weathercock (1849), by Maurus Jókai

742

69Kossuth's farewell (1849)

357

70The salt mines of Wieliczka (1850), by Bayard Taylor

729

71Austria-Hungary Part V: Stories and poems of Bohemia, Hungary, and the Tyrol: Historical note

72The dog and the wolf, a Bohemian folk-tale, retold by Theodor Vernaleken

449

73The poor man and the king of the crows, a Magyar folk-tale, retold by Jeremiah Curtin

1299

74St. Kümmerniss, a legend of the Tyrol

339

75The legend of St. Kümmerniss, by François Joseph Heim (French artist, 1787-1865), painting p. 400

76Stories of the gypsies

762

77Two Magyar poems

309

78A Csikos race, by Alexander Wagner (Hungarian artist, 1838), painting p. 408

122

79The Balkan States: Historical note

202

80Marko and the Turks (fifteenth century), an old Servian ballad

441

81Montenegro, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

121

82An attack on the Bashi-Bazouks (1907), by Arthur D. Howden Smith

1716

83Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, -1878), painting p. 434

144

84The siege of Adrianople (1912), by Philip Gibbs

525

85The flight from Lule-Burgas (1912), by Bernard Grant

1147

86Turkey Part I: To the capture of Constantinople: Historical note

184

87Constantinople, a city built to order (fourth century), by Edward Gibbon

700

88The coming of the comet (1402), by Maurus Jókai

1156

89Scanderbeg (about 1450), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

449

90The fall of Constantinople (1453), by Edward Gibbon

951

91Turkey Part II: Turkey at the height of her power: Historical note

155

92The tribute of children, by Anonymous

366

93The little Janizary (about 1453), by James M. Ludlow

1144

94The surrender of Rhodes (1522), by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

688

95A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent (sixteenth century), translated from a Genoese letter

214

96Dining with the Sultana (1718), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

478

97Turkey Part III: The sick man of Europe: Historical note

151

98The last of the Janizaries (1826), by Maurus Jókai

1168

99The muezzin, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 528

174

100''The House of Fear'' (1908), by Francis McCullagh

1279

101The silent army (1909), by Francis McCullagh

663

102Turkey Part IV: Turkish stories: Historical note

103''The lamb bolted'', a legend of Turkish justice

380

104Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja

374

105A Turkish friendship (eighteenth century), by Cheliby Yorgaki

574

106Turkey Part V: Stories of Turkish life and customs: Historical note

107

107The first telegraph in Turkey (1854), by Sir J. William Whittall

152

108Choosing a wife for the son, by Lucy M. J. Garnett

270

109''Protestant bread'', by Cyrus Hamlin, D. D.

423

110The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe

678

111Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari, by Albert Aublet (French artist, 1851), painting p. 574

104

112A Turkish ''What for ?'', by Demetra Vaka

482

World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey

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