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Preface
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Summary of Chief Events in
Russian History
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Chapter I
The first Scot in Russia. Scots in Poland. The English "Society for the
discovery of unknown lands" come to Russia. The embassies of Ivan the
Terrible to England, and his desires. The policy of his successors.
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Chapter II
The Captives. Commencement of the Colony of the Scots. The foreign
Faubourg. Vicissitudes of Scottish Soldiers.
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Chapter III
The first Romanoffs. Michael Feodorovitch. His son Aleksei Michaelovitch.
Refuses to recognise Cromwell. Influx of Royalist Scots. The Tsar's
marriage to Nathalia Narishkina, niece of a Hamilton.
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Chapter IV
General Patrick Gordon of Auchleuchries.
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Chapter V
Gordon's hopes from a Catholic king in England. Given permission to
return, leaving his wife and family as hostages. His report to James II.
and VII. His return to Russia, and his service there.
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Chapter VI
Collaborators of Peter the Great.
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Chapter VII
The Bruce Family in Russia. The escape of General Gordon.
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Chapter VIII
Catherine I. Peter II. Marshal Keith. Anna Ivanovna. Other Scots.
Elizabeth.
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Chapter IX
Scottish Families settled in Russia. The Court Physicians. Rogerson.
Other Scots - Sir James Wylie, Count Barclay de Tolly, Lermontoff.
Conclusion.
