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RUDOLV KÖRNER
lands historia. Först med Peter den store gör Ryssland sitt
inträde i världshistorien, vilket naturligtvis inte behöver hindra
en världshistoria från att alls syssla med Rysslands tidigare
historia. Men denna historia bör komma såsom blott och
bart en inledning till Peter den stores Ryssland, och
framställningen av detta avsnitt kan därför göras mycket
summarisk. För att giva en antydan om Robinsons
behandlingssätt trycker jag här av det första avsnittet av kapitlet »Rise
of Russia and Prussia», som just behandlar »Beginnings of
Russia»:
We have had little occasion hitherto, in dealing with the
history of western Europe, to speak of the Slavic peoples, to
whom the Russians, Poles, Bohemians, and many other nations
of eastern Europe belong. Together they form the most
numerous race in Europe, but, as has been well said, »they occupy
a greather place on the map than in history». In the eighteenth
century, however, Russia began to take an increasingly important
part in European affairs, and it is now a great force in the
politics of the world. The realms of the Tsar in Europe exceeded
in extent those of all other rulers of the Continent put together,
and yet they were scarcely more than a quarter of his whole
dominion, which embraced northern and central Asia, and formed
together an empire occupying nearly three times the area of the
United States.
The Slavs were settled along the Dnieper, Don, and Vistula
rivers long before the Christian era. After the East Goths had
penetrated into the Roman Empire the Slavs followed their
example and invaded, ravaged, and conquered the Balkan
Peninsula, which they held for some time. When the German Lombards
went south into Italy, about 569, the Slavs pressed behind them
into the eastern Alps, where they later lived within the bounds
of the Austrian Empire. Other Slavic hordes had driven the
Germans across the Oder and the upper Elbe. Later the
German emperors, beginning with Charlemagne, began to push them
back, but the Bohemians and Moravians, who are Slavs, still
hold an advanced position on the borders of Germany.
In the ninth century some of the Northmen invaded the
districts to the east of the Baltic, while their relatives were causing
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