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The Tsar Pea seemed pleased, ordered a feast, commanded tunes to be played and drums beaten, rewarded the two brothers of Ivanoushka the Simpleton, each one with a town, and praised them. The boyars and warriors became furious. "Why," they said to the Tsar, "there is nothing wonderful in such an apple tree with golden apples and silver leaves.
Spartan oligarchs and Athenian democrats, Roman patricians and Roman plebeians, Venetian senators and Florentine ciompi, Norman nobles and Saxon serfs, Russian boyars and Turkish spahis, Spanish hidalgos and Aztec soldiers, Carolina slaveholders and New England farmers, these and a hundred other races or orders have all been parties to the great, the universal struggle which has for its object the acquisition of property, the providing of a shield against the ever-threatening fiend which we call WANT. Property once obtained, the possessor's next aim is to keep it.
Then Marcobrun ordered the trumpets to sound, and assembled an army of four million men, and said to his boyars: "My faithful servants, pursue Bova, and bring him and Drushnevna alive to me."
His parents were overjoyed and made a great feast. When Yaroslav was fifteen years old he went often to the Tsar's Court and played with the children of princes and boyars.
Lefort raised another corps of twelve thousand, from the Streltzi chiefly. These were the forces, in conjunction with the navy, with which he reduced Azof. He now returns to Moscow, and receives the congratulations of the boyars, or nobles, that class who owned the landed property of Russia and cultivated it by serfs.
Continuation of the war Stratagems of the Swedes Peculiar kind of boat Making a smoke Peter determines to build a city The site Peter's first visit to the Neva Cronstadt A stratagem Contest on the island Peter examines the locality He matures his plans Mechanics and artisans Ships and merchandise Laborers The boyars The building commenced Wharves and piers Palace Confusion Variety of labors Want of tools and implements Danger from the enemy Supplies of provisions The supplies often fall short Consequent sickness Great mortality Peter's impetuosity of spirit Streets and buildings Private dwellings What the King of Sweden said Map Situation of Cronstadt Peter plans a fortress Mode of laying the foundations Danger from the Swedes Plan of their attack The Swedes beaten off The attempt entirely fails Mechanics and artisans Various improvements Scientific institutions
They had considered it no disgrace to receive corporal punishment, and had been jealous of their honour, not as gentlemen or descendants of Boyars, but as Brigadiers, College Assessors, or Privy Counsellors. Their dignity had rested not on the grace of God, but on the will of the Tsar.
We can distinguish there the mediatised Princes, still harbouring designs for the recovery of their independence; the Moscow Boyars, jealous of their family honour and proud of Muscovite supremacy; Tartar Murzi, who have submitted to be baptised and have received land like the other nobles; the Novgorodian magnate, who cannot forget the ancient glory of his native city; Lithuanian nobles, who find it more profitable to serve the Tsar than their own sovereign; petty chiefs who have fled from the opposition of the Teutonic order; and soldiers of fortune from every part of Russia.
He had scarcely arrived before the boyars and leading citizens of Moscow, who flocked to congratulate him on his return, were taken aback by the edict that whiskers were condemned, and that the razor must be set at work without delay upon their honorable chins. This edict was like a thunder-clap from a clear sky. The Russians admired and revered their beards.
You go to the Tsar's Court and play mischievous tricks with the children of the princes and boyars, and they have complained to the Tsar Kartaus, and he has banished you from the kingdom." At this Yaroslav laughed and said: "My lord and father, grieve not for me that I am banished.
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