CHAPTER XXVI

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Nicholas II. Russification of Finland Invitation to Disarmament Brief Review of Conditions

SUPPLEMENT.

Conditions Preceding Russo-Japanese War Nature of Dispute Results of Conflict Peace Conference at Portsmouth Treaty Signed A National Assembly Dissolution of First Russian Parliament Present Outlook

LIST OF PRINCES.

INDEX.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Peter the Great . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

The Czar Iván the Terrible and his son Iván Ivánovitch

The Coronation of the Czar Alexander III., 1883

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soldiers on the march in Manchuria

A SHORT HISTORY OF RUSSIA

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