The World’s Story Volume VI: Russia, Austria-Hungary, the Balkan States and Turkey

002 - Russia Part I: Folk-tales and early history: Historical note

003 - The imp and the crust, by Count Leo Tolstoy

004 - The story of iron and the poison water, from the Kalevala

005 - The country and customs of the Scythians (fifth century B.C.), by Herodotus

006 - The vengeance of Queen Olga (about 945), from the chronicle of Nestor

007 - Vladimir in search of a religion (about 988), by John S. C. Abbott

008 - Russia Part II: In the days of Ivan the Terrible: Historical note

009 - How Russia was freed from the Tartars (1480), by John S. C. Abbott

010 - Ivan the Terrible (1533-1584), by Frances A. Shaw

011 - Life at the Setch (fifteenth century), by Nikolai V. Gogol

012 - The false Czar (1605), by Frances A. Shaw

013 - The kremlin of Moscow, by Bayard Taylor

014 - Russia Part III: Peter the Great: Historical note

015 - A morning with Peter the Great (early in the eighteenth century), by Dmitri Merejkowski

016 - How St. Petersburg was built (1703), by John S. C. Abbott

017 - A supposed letter from an English architect (1715), by Maurice Baring

018 - Russia Part IV: From Catherine the Great to the invasion of Napoleon: Historical note

019 - A day with Catherine the Great (1794), by Adrian Moyseevich Gribovski

020 - Borodino (1812), by Alexander Sergeyevitch Pushkin

021 - The burning of Moscow, by Louis Adolph Thiers

022 - The crossing of the Beresina river (1812), by John S. C. Abbott

023 - Passage of the Beresina, by J. H. Van Papendrecht, painting p. 130

024 - Russia Part V: Poland: Historical note

025 - The surrender of Kamenyetz (1672), by Henryk Sienkiewicz

026 - Poland or Russia ? (1793), by Jane Porter

027 - The division of Poland, by Sir Edwin Arnold

028 - The revolt in Warsaw, 1861, by Joseph Nicholas Robert-Fleury (French painter, 1792-1890), painting p. 158

029 - Russia Part VI: Siberia: Historical note

030 - The conquest of Siberia (1579-1584), by Count Leo Tolstoy

031 - Yermak, a folk-song

032 - How pardon was won for an exile (1808), by Madame Sophie Risteau Cottin

033 - On the march to Siberia (nineteenth century), by Baroness M. De Packh

034 - A Kirghis warrior, by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin (Russia, 1842-1904), painting p. 186

035 - In a Tartar tent (about 1909), by Lindon Bates, Jr.

036 - Russia Part VII: A coronation and three wars: Historical note

037 - The coronation of Alexander II (1855), by Count von Moltke

038 - The emancipation of the serfs (1861), by Hezekiah Butterworth

039 - The taking of the village (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vsyevolod Mikhailovitch Garshin

040 - The capture of a redoubt (an incident of the war of 1877 with Turkey), by Vasili Vasilevich Vereshchagin

041 - Coaling at sea (1905), by Commander Vladimir Semenoff, of the Imperial Russian Navy

042 - Russia Part VIII: Life in modern Russia: Historical note

043 - The races on the Neva river (1870), by Théophile Gautier

044 - A little Jewish girl in Russia, by Mary Antin

045 - The fair of Nijni-Novgorod, by Edna Dean Proctor

046 - Austria-Hungary Part I: From the Tartar invasion to the Reformation: Historical note

047 - The coming of the Tartars (1240), by Louis Felbermann

048 - How Rudolf the First became Emperor (1273), by John S. C. Abbott

049 - Stories of Rudolf, founder of the house of Hapsburg (thirteenth century), by William Coxe

050 - How Naumburg was saved, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, - 1878), painting p. 270

051 - The deliverance of Prague (1420), by E. H. Gillett

052 - A funeral menu of the sixteenth century (1509), from the old chronicles

053 - The emperor Maximilian receiving the Venetian embassy, by Karl Ludwig Friedrich Becker (German artist, 1820-1900), painting p. 284

054 - Austria-Hungary Part II: The religious wars of the seventeenth century: Historical note

055 - The devastation of St. Vitus's church (1619-1620), by Marie Hay

056 - Wallenstein, the deposed general (1630), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

057 - Wallenstein and the cuirassiers (1634), by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

058 - How John Sobieski saved Vienna from the Turks (1683), by John S. C. Abbott

059 - Austria-Hungary Part III: From Maria Theresa to the downfall of Napoleon: Historical note

060 - How Maria Theresa of Austria became King (1740), by John S. C. Abbott

061 - The command of Maria Theresa, by John S. C. Abbott

062 - Hohenlinden (1800), by Thomas Campbell

063 - The battle of Austerlitz (1805), by John S. C. Abbott

064 - How the French honored Joseph Haydn (1805), by ''Louisa Mühlbach'' (Klara M. Mundt)

065 - Andreas Hofer rallying the Tyrolean mountaineers, by Franz von Defregger (Austrian painter, 1835), painting p. 344

066 - Austria-Hungary Part IV: The nineteenth century: Historical note

067 - After the battle of Szolnok (1849), by Maurus Jókai

068 - The unlucky weathercock (1849), by Maurus Jókai

069 - Kossuth's farewell (1849)

070 - The salt mines of Wieliczka (1850), by Bayard Taylor

071 - Austria-Hungary Part V: Stories and poems of Bohemia, Hungary, and the Tyrol: Historical note

072 - The dog and the wolf, a Bohemian folk-tale, retold by Theodor Vernaleken

073 - The poor man and the king of the crows, a Magyar folk-tale, retold by Jeremiah Curtin

074 - St. Kümmerniss, a legend of the Tyrol

075 - The legend of St. Kümmerniss, by François Joseph Heim (French artist, 1787-1865), painting p. 400

076 - Stories of the gypsies

077 - Two Magyar poems

078 - A Csikos race, by Alexander Wagner (Hungarian artist, 1838), painting p. 408

079 - The Balkan States: Historical note

080 - Marko and the Turks (fifteenth century), an old Servian ballad

081 - Montenegro, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

082 - An attack on the Bashi-Bazouks (1907), by Arthur D. Howden Smith

083 - Herzegovinians returning to a village sacked by the Bashi-Bazouks, by Jaroslav Cermak (Bohemian artist, -1878), painting p. 434

084 - The siege of Adrianople (1912), by Philip Gibbs

085 - The flight from Lule-Burgas (1912), by Bernard Grant

086 - Turkey Part I: To the capture of Constantinople: Historical note

087 - Constantinople, a city built to order (fourth century), by Edward Gibbon

088 - The coming of the comet (1402), by Maurus Jókai

089 - Scanderbeg (about 1450), by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

090 - The fall of Constantinople (1453), by Edward Gibbon

091 - Turkey Part II: Turkey at the height of her power: Historical note

092 - The tribute of children, by Anonymous

093 - The little Janizary (about 1453), by James M. Ludlow

094 - The surrender of Rhodes (1522), by Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

095 - A visit to the wife of Solyman the Magnificent (sixteenth century), translated from a Genoese letter

096 - Dining with the Sultana (1718), by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

097 - Turkey Part III: The sick man of Europe: Historical note

098 - The last of the Janizaries (1826), by Maurus Jókai

099 - The muezzin, by Jean Léon Gérôme (French artist, 1824-1904), painting p. 528

100 - ''The House of Fear'' (1908), by Francis McCullagh

101 - The silent army (1909), by Francis McCullagh

102 - Turkey Part IV: Turkish stories: Historical note

103 - ''The lamb bolted'', a legend of Turkish justice

104 - Stories of Nasr-Eddin Hoja

105 - A Turkish friendship (eighteenth century), by Cheliby Yorgaki

106 - Turkey Part V: Stories of Turkish life and customs: Historical note

107 - The first telegraph in Turkey (1854), by Sir J. William Whittall

108 - Choosing a wife for the son, by Lucy M. J. Garnett

109 - ''Protestant bread'', by Cyrus Hamlin, D. D.

110 - The dancing dervishes, by Julia Pardoe

111 - Ceremony of dervishes at Scutari, by Albert Aublet (French artist, 1851), painting p. 574

112 - A Turkish ''What for ?'', by Demetra Vaka