ended in Japan's obtaining
possession of that key to Peking, with the promise of holding it
beyond the possibility of recapture, until China recovers its manhood.
The Treaty of Peace was signed September 5, at Portsmouth, N. H.

What will be the effect of the war upon the Russian people? While the
plenipotentiaries were discussing the terms of peace, autocracy
launched a ukase calling for a consultative assembly. Russian
thinkers, however, reflect that, so long as autocracy exists and the
tchinovnik admit no other authority but that of the czar, another
ukase may revoke the doubtful boon.

No one knows what the morrow will bring, either to us or to the Slav.
Yet it seems absurd to suppose that, after the lessons of corruption
and incompetence of the present government, the educated Russians will
remain quiescent while the great empire continues on its downward
course. Mediaevalism has come into contact with the spirit of the
twentieth century, and has been found wanting. It seems as if the dawn
of a new era for Russia is at hand.

INDEX. (p. 285)

A

Abdul Aziz, 231.

Abdul Hamid, 232.

Alexander I, the Well-beloved, 197.

Alexander II, the Liberator, 218.

Alexander III, the Peasants' Friend, 241.

Alexander of Battenberg, 246.

Alexander Nevski, 60, 69.

Alexis Michaelovitch, 141.

Alexis, son of Peter the Great, 170.

Andrew Bogolioubski, 54.

Anne Ivanovna, Czarina, 175.

Area of Russia, 14.

Armenians, 255.

Askold, 30.

B

Baskak, Tartar tax collector, 71.

Bati, Khan of the Golden Horde, 65.

Battle of the Oka, 102.

Boundaries of Russia, 15.

Boyard, noble, 56.

Byzantium, former name of Constantinople.

C

Catherine I, wife of Peter the Great, 169, 171, 173.

Catherine II, the Great, 183.

Caucasus, The 264.

Chouiski, Andrew, 112.

Chouiski, Czar, 134.

Christianity, 36, 42.

Climate of Russia, 18.

Constantine, 58.

Council of Florence, attempt to unite the Roman and Greek Churches, 60.

Crimea The, annexed, 190.

Crimean War, 215.

Cyril, 36.

Czar, king, 112.

Czargrad, city of the king.

Czarina, wife of the czar.

D

Dagh Bog the sun god, 20.

Diak, secretary, 107.

Dir, 30.

Dmitri Donskoi, 87.

Dnieper, 20.

Donskoi, of the Don, surname of Dmitri, 91.

Douma, counci