Show i i I Territorial L 1 Acquisitions of the Russian Empire i 1 s lI in reluctance 01 of R to admit American and other othera foreign f consuls cot a Into the r r g capital Mukden and I 1 the Yalu river towns of and Tatung I koiv kow In accordance with of ot the Iho recent treaty between lh terms the and China gives a II States Slates the h United t of or the tho motives and ant Illustration e Ken ot tho Ru Russian lan empire Never NeverIn Lite of tit nations lias hns there been 1 la In the history such example of ot persistent ex exit M al airbed by tho sl Slav it only about about our four our or IWo five centuries was IM II that ho he emerged from rom barbarism ago 0 Mongolian rule at which time he ho ieS and cd a territory but little larger the other oilier nations of ot Europe I than and nd tram front that Tirelessly Tirele ly div d to this ho he has gone gono from step to day Y gathering g tract after acter tract and andi step until ho hoj kingdom a litter after cr kingdom now i the largest amount of contiguous con j territory of ot any af government on onearth earth tarth rho IM means by b which this land was I i taken okra have haC varied Sometimes by b war 1 by 11 diplomacy sometimes by settlement ho has reached his ends Then The method seemed always a 11 second and nd try arY matter m To secure the land was the Ibe primary object Ho Ito did not lies heel tote Ite its at butcher butchery If It butchery were nee nce miry He Ito cheerfully lied II ell It If lying forward his purpose He fo to o mentel Internal discords IUS cords In the coveted kingdom If it ho he thus thua could cauM come In un under der the tho guise gulso of at peacemaker and take the Ibe country COUll try for tor his own It If It were necessary to reach his hla goal ont by b Indirection tion then the Indirect route was wall fol tol If It he was compelled to seize his pity when wilen the other powers were not looking such luch seizure was made If It he ho horad hed bad rad d to wait walt n II century before be foro achieving Jilt Ids III object he lie willed patiently and Heaten back ut lit ono point ho reached out at nt others other but always ill ways and everywhere ho lie kept In view one thing to 10 get the tho land Czars vero born and died but tho the Russian purpose was deathless de Governments changed but this one aile vital central policy was Ivan Peter Peler Catherine Al AI I uander Nicholas these monarchs I personally have represented the tho widest divergent of makeup and character but on the line of ot expansion they have h vo followed one course 11 can con be compared to n a lako fed ted iron from tome some Invisible source and ever Increasing In Its area Sometimes It H Jin hu has crept foot toot by b foot Coot sometimes rush rushing rushing ing J g over oer some Impeding embankment It II has KAS swept over Ver leagues and leagues of et t plain Sometimes a human upheaval hat has a crowded It back ut lit one point Its Us voters asters Increased nt at others Whatever the incidents In Ments attendant upon Its pros es refs It moved on Like tho the lake too It ia spread over olor contiguous terri tern territory lory tory This Is tho the peculiar difference its r t 1 r ri nb 9 Yi du 1 h i i i V r I y r il 1 t l t rl li f ft t r r rl I w I l a rl a r i k kI kr r f h i 5 r P fl e epp tat 4 SJ lWi pp 9 A J e c 2 t q o 0 j r 7 r Gt fi r U J 9 El g SEA pAN q 9 s cS J J s G i r 7 i q I t The Tho Russian bear be r his hind paws having crushed Finland and Poland has one front paw on Manchuria while the other Is held menacingly above Korea between the Muscovite and every oer other conquering nation Home Rome and taken colonies wherever they the theco could co ld be Je secured Ku took only those adjacent She even sold said Alaska which though near was wall separated by bywater bywater water There Thero Is no nation so unified so organic and this thin unity unit Is In not only gov gay governmental but geographic Whatever she sho takes she assimilates It 11 may be never so much nt ot enmity to her she makes It H Russian Juil This process may require centuries Her Iier purpose Is la lon Ion longer ger She may leave leae tho Iho captured ter territory ter territory the fiction of at n a govern government government ment even een permit It t to 10 remain ostensibly lily bly hI under the control of ot some seine other great greal power It Il that site sho has hall gained n a foothold This she Rile never hover re relinquishes but bides her he time gaining larger and larger concessions until at last tho the captured province Is hili n a portion of ot her hor ever eer advancing empire Thus Thull she shu spread eastward train trout Moscow Ioco to tl tho the mountains Thus she he ho moved onward Into Asia Asla and annexed Siberia Thus ThuR by struggle otter after struggle site she took look Finland from tram Sweden Thus by b partition after ottel partition she die absorbed nb tho the larger portion of ot Poland Thus by br war tear after aCter war she wrested the Cauca Caucasus sus sac and train from Turkey Thus by ii b crowding and a lighting she conquered portions of Turkestan Khiva l and II lid I Thus by diplomacy she site Is 19 gradually tightening her grip upon Manchuria Who ho tan caw wonder that Napoleon who had hlll tho the longest vision Into the future of oC any nn noun man of ot modern times lines said that Km Europe ope would ultimately become all nil Cossack or nil republican ln He lie could have added that Asia will become nil nilI Slav I or er nil civilized Tho The original Hussla Russia Is 19 said to have Ilme been of ot Scandinavian origin These virile Norsemen that gave gae vigor to the tho Saxon the tho and ami the tho also stirred Into life liCe tho the Slav Sin v In it the tenth century nil all the coun country countr country try tr known by h the tho Hussion name lay luy In tho Iho regions later occupied by Poland a 1111 and Lithuania Then In the eleventh century arose under mir nud title this was erns ell all of It Hussla that was wars tree free during the two centuries of ot the Tartar Invasion The modern Run Hun Hunsin sin sla however dates from Ivan of ot Mos Moscow cow caw who arose orse nt III the tho time the tho Tartar Inundation ebbed lack hack trout from natural causes el Ivan hon took In 1478 1471 Later Latr ho he gathered In several seventh other provinces to the south and east enst Fol iol Following lowing him hip came knit Ivan the Terrible who gave e himself the title of czar zar of or Tills This title ho he derived not from Cresar C an 1111 s Is la generally supposed but hut from an on oriental name tho the translation ot of the king It was during durIn the reign of this title second Ivan that the tho ho first war with the Crim Tar far Tartars tars tare was us fought resulting In their re ro pulse e and also abo that Siberia was 1011 cap captured captured went over tho lire Ural mountains and swept through the sparsely settled plains of northern Asia with life Ills Cossacks turning over his conquests to the czar In Ili a II century nearly near till nil tho the present Siberian Siberia II territory had been bee II overrun and ond taken The next accession of oC nay any 01 moment m to toi i or Russia n nR III It was wall coming to bo be culled called nan ivan In IC 2 when the tho of the Ukraine revolted from ruin Poland loland and gave their allegiance to ta tho the czar ezar The Th land hand movement nt lit this time however was vas away n 11 from Crom Russia tor for Gustavus Adolphus was defeating her lull half civilized soldiers and forcing ces cell cessions stone of oC territory to Swollen Sweden Among tin rest rent the tho site sill where now stands Ht St Petersburg P II dent ont to the tho triumphant Swedish h kingTo king kingTo III nil To become effective this thin material hu humanity inanity manity this Muscovite lu body bedy needed n a soul That Hurt soul ClIme came In hr 9 The T Ire name It Il iron boto was Peter Peter the Great ho Ito has hus been called coiled by b succeeding ogee lIe it hind hail 1 hem been un animal Inns tunny before herme This mean man touched It with n higher life 1111 taught It civilization It n II capital organized It till lilt It could Unlit light In Iu modern fashion brought It Into touch with other national units trolls that had madu It In fact an entity nn an organic thing And of 01 court course I ho continued the acquisition of ot territory lie He Invaded ingria and other o till of the Swedish possessions duct anil when defeated by b Charles Nil II that Sweden will teach leach tin the Russians how loti ho to whip her yel As AN grittily grimly ho hu went vent to raising and training an army mm and his liln hl prediction was veil nod when Charles was utterly demolished ut act It may Inu he hll remarked In III irons Ing lug that the two must most Intrepid lighters of It modern who hull hud dazzled the world with WIt l their previous victories dashed the lie human mass ol ot and were shattered If It one would fin forma in a II just estimate of the pow now power or er of the Muscovite he has hUB but hut to look at nt the closing dOlling chapters of 01 the ilie th lives Ihei of oC Charles XII Xi I and Napoleon Peter Ieler defeated the Turks nud took 20 tho the time lie He defeated the Swedes Sweden and took look the tho present site Rite of or St Petersburg and a l Urge large amount of ot ter territory territory roundabout Then filets he founded the capital practically In a n 1 swamp culling calling It Il the window to western Ku Eu Europe I u rope Later he moved mOe his court there Who has hns not tint read the tho melancholy fate of ot Finland and Poland It 11 won Ion lour long after Peter leter had hall awakened him Into Inlo life ho that thai the great bear came canto hulking up 1111 to the tho northwest across the wheal fields of ot old and Finland fought off ort the Swedish guards s and took most mast of oC the country for tor his own This ap In 1743 1713 Nearly thirty years cars later In iii tho the reign of at Catherine Cath Catherine erine orino who lio had Instigated the murder mur er of ot othor her hor husband and had taken the thc throne from her son Catherine who lived 1 1 openly oln with her h r lovers loers In tho Iho Imperial palace yet cl who was a 11 strong trong ruler and r I iI thoroughly unlined Imbued with the c 1 and purpose of ot In her reign In Inn 1772 n came cattie the orel l partition r ot at Poland l i At t the rile height of at her power Poland had f P from rein to IC population i tion and above UbON u quarter of ot million k itt square miles being larger In ht area than i i 1 France lance Jut Hut Internal h dissensions came f q 1 possibly pO at the Instigation of ot Catherine t i I and the tho great bear benr shambled over to tomake tl J make peare peace and ond preserve order Ho Ile i 1 also ulso Interested Austria and aliI Prussia In I i his hi benevolent plans and nud the result was that presumably to maintain the tho N T Tl I peace l aco more effectually each took a 11 q large slice of Polish territory Then In 1793 come came a n second partition and und this title I Hussla secured twice as ns large tt i 1 II slice as before beCore over halt half the kingdom M MIn In all ull Two Tivo O years ealS later the fiction ot of 4 i an nn Independent government was wall as wiped S Sout t out Hut Russia took all of ot the III nil fated f a y kingdom that was left and Poland be he became i mine came n a Muscovite province All this I Iwas i was not accomplished without lighting r t some Motile of the fiercest lighting In the tho A t worlds history and there were occa I outbreaks for tor years after att r rA At A l the very er time tune poor floor Poland was wal 1 being absorbed the bear was Will also busy burry j jIn 1 In the Crimea There In a fierce war warthe it the Hie Turk was driven back and most of x t the Caucasus came Into the hands of tai V lie tho Russian was taken a II second ts f time hue with several of oC the provinces ly lyIng ly Iy lying 0 ing roundabout u II naval road Into the and the Mediterranean was t opened and Sevastopol arose aa os St It A 1 Petersburg had arisen arlen before and a as 1 Odessa arose later Some of ot tills this territory ter IS lost In iii the subsequent Crl Cri Crimean mean meant war tear with Ingland I France I and anel Turkey furko but Jut most of it remained per permanently C Russian During the nineteenth century the tho emple empie of It the tho Slav steadily pushed out I In directions In 1612 1812 was Willi UH ken aken from ruin the Turk In 1814 ISM and ond came further acquisitions In Poland Po 10 Poland land Front 1839 to 1569 1169 was as the tho com cony complete L pleto subjugation of at the tho Caucasus and I In 1855 1866 was wall the cap capture capture ture turc of at Kara From Irom I rom 1859 1869 to 1876 1176 cen een central I Asia ARIa reds Overrun and portions ot or i i Turkestan and Khiva caina cAme H the dominion of oC the czar Fight Fighting hug hilt and settling nettling the tho Cossack moved movell to r t the southeast Now It Is III Manchuria Port Arthur and Danny Dalny 1 are already secured Rue Rus Russian span sian troops are arc In Mukden the capital capitala t r I IU I a U Russian railroad traverses the tho coun country countr country try tr awl and Russian settlements ore are being imade I made at nt various arlous obis mints along Its route i I Iala After later Manchuria what Korea Per Persia I Isla i ala sia Northern China The rue Balkan i states stales Turkey i iI J The he world wor I d has not yet et measured the i I strength of oC the Russian He Ile Is III only 1 awaken awakening I nB from the sleep steep ot of barbarism Y He Ito Is III the last be b if the great races rl s that h en canto mo from the iho Aryan migration to HO so 4 awaken When he ho Is fully Cully aroused what then lien t L t |