Book excerpt: Excerpt from Russia Its Rise Progress, Tragedies,& RevolutionsHuman family, and the stock of the predominating race in the Russian empire, were in Europe prior to the Christian era, and for several ages antecedent to it, if not, according to some authorities, at a period so remote as the rise of the Roman name and power. But five centuries of the current epoch had passed away before they established any considerable set B.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.