The Mongols in Russia - Classic Reprint Author:Jeremiah Curtin THE MONGOLS IN RUSSIA — CHAPTER I — EARLY HISTORY OF RUSSIA — IN my history of the Mongols wc have seen how Hulagu beguiled the Assassius and slaughtered them. We have scon also how he ended the Kalifat at Bagdad, showing no more regard for the heir of Mohammed than for the ehicf of those murderers who held I hat marvelous mountain-land south of th... more »e Caspian. The Kalif of Islam was trampled to death under horse-hoofs. The chief of the Assassins was treated with insult, endured for a lime, and then slain like a wild beast.
We are now to consider an expedition planned at that Kurultai held during Ogotai's election, and see what was done by its leader, an expedition which ruined large portions of Europe as far as the Adriatic, and made Batu, the nephew of Jinghis Khan, supreme lord of them.
The Mongols retreated from all lands west of the Carpathians and confined themselves exclusively to that part of Europe which we know as Russia. The West was too narrow for them, too mountainous, too mu
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CONTENTS; CHAPTER I; PAGE; Ktirultai held by Ogotai- Sarai, the Mongol capital - Patriarchal system of Russia- Rnrik, B62 - Death of P«urik, 879- Oleg, successor of Flunk- Askold and Dir, - Oleg takes Kief - Expedition against Constantinople- First Russian treaty - Death of Oleg, 912 - Heign of Igor- Attacks on the Byzantine Empire, 941, 914; - Murder of Igor, 945 - Olga avenges the murder of licr husband; - Reign of Olga-Succession of Svaitoslav, 957 - Olga receives; Christianity--The Kozars - Sviatoslav controls Bulgaria - Kief; attacked by Petcbenegs- Death of Olga - Sviatoslav divides his inheritance-Second war with Rnlgaria,- Murder of Sviatoslav, 973 - Dispute between the sons of Sviatoslav-Yaropolk becomes master of Russia - Vladimir takes Polotsk - Rlud betrays Yaro-polk - Vladimir becomes Prince of Kief - Religion of Russia- Marriage of Vladimir with Anna, sister« less