Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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e, and rashlyexposed himself to the severe tempera-ture of the northern spring. He wassucceeded by his son Alexander II.,1855-1881, at the age of thirty-seven.One of the first objects of the new czaiwas to put an end to the war, and thetreaty of Paris was signed in 1856, bywhich Russia consented to keep novessels of war in the Black Sea, and togive up her protectorate of the Eastern I?8 GK£.Ai JiViiiNi^ iXN isUoalA. Christians; the former, it must beadded, she has afterward recovered. A portion of Russian Bessarabia wasalso cut off and added to the Danubianprincii)alities, which were shortly to beunited under the name of Roumania.This was afterwards given back toRussia by the treaty of Berlin. Sebas- out by his son. The landlords, on re-ceiving an indemnity, now released tlicserfs from their seigniorial rights, andthe village commune became the actualproperty of the serf. This great revo-lution was not, however, carried outwithout great difficulty. The Polish insurrection of 1863 was
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SEBASTOPOL DURING topol also has been rebuilt, so that it isdifficult to see what the practical re-sults of the Crimean War were, in spiteof the vast bloodshed and expenditureof treasure which attended it. The next important measure was theemancipation of the serfs in 1861. Thisgreat reform had long been meditatedby Nicholas, but he was unable to ac- »complish it, and left it to be earned I THE BOMBARDMENT. a great misfortune to that part of Polandwhich had been incorporated with Rus-sia. On the other hand Finland hadseen her privileges confirmed. Among important foreign events ofthis reign must be mentioned the cap-ture of Schamyl in 1859 by PrinceBariatinski, and the pacification of theCaucasus; many of the Circassians, un-able to endure the peaceful life of cul- GREAT EVENTS IN RUSSIA. 179 tivators ui tlic soil under the newregime, migrated to Turkey, wherethey hcwc formed one of the mostturbulent elements of the population.Turkestan also has been gradually sub-jugated. In 1865 th

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