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All this would seem to a lawyer, or even to a diplomatist, a very shadowy title, and none of the Russian monarchs except perhaps Catherine II., who conceived the project of resuscitating the Byzantine Empire, and caused one of her grandsons to learn modern Greek, in view of possible contingencies ever thought seriously of claiming the imaginary heritage; but the idea that the Tsars ought to reign in Tsargrad, and that St.
He was a wanderer over the earth, for, learned in all else, he still sought knowledge of men and of countries. He had gone up by the Volga to the Kama and to the Bulgarians. Now he was wending his way with the Russians to Kiev and Tsargrad. "Ibn-Sadif ascended the hill, and beheld a blazing pile. On a log of wood lay a maiden with her left breast ripped open; flames licked her feet.
Russia thus became ecclesiastically a part of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and the people learned to regard Tsargrad that is, the City of the Tsar, as the Byzantine Emperor was then called with peculiar veneration.
Constantinople Tsargrad as it was called by the Russians had no charms for the proletariat. They wanted peace, some of them because national wars divided the forces of international Socialism and postponed the war of classes, but most in order that they might consolidate their revolution and garner its ripe and refreshing fruit.
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