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the ambitious boyars, nor the pillaging See also:Cossacks, nor the See also:German mercenaries were satisfied with the See also:change, and soon a new impostor, likewise calling himself Dimitri, son of See also:Tsar See also:Ivan, came forward as the rightful See also:heir. Like his predecessor, Pseudo- he enjoyed the See also:protection and support of the See also:Polish
Denier- See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, See also:Sigismund III., and was strong enough to
rlus 1H., compel Shuiski to abdicate; but as soon as the 1608-10. See also:throne was vacant Sigismund put forward as a See also:candidate his own son, See also:Wladislaus. To this latter the See also:people of See also:Moscow swore See also:allegiance on See also:condition of his maintaining Orthodoxy and granting certain rights, and on this under-See also:standing the Polish troops were allowed to occupy the See also:city and the Kremlin. Then Sigismund unveiled his real See also:plan, which was to obtain the throne not for his son but for himself. This See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme did not please any of the contending factions and it roused the See also:anti-See also:Catholic fanaticism of the masses. At the same See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time it was displeasing to the Swedes, who had become rivals of the Poles on the Baltic See also:coast, and they started a false Dimitri of their own in See also:Novgorod.
See also:Russia was thus in a very See also:critical condition. The throne was vacant, the See also:great nobles quarrelling among themselves, See also:Accession the Catholic Poles in the Kremlin of Moscow, the of the See also:Protestant Swedes in Novgorod, and enormous bands See also:house of of brigands everywhere. The severity of the crisis See also:Romanov. produced a remedy, in the See also:form of a patriotic rising of the masses under the leadership of a See also:butcher called Minin and a See also:Prince Pozharski. In a See also:short time the invaders were expelled, and a See also:Grand See also:National See also:Assembly elected as tsar See also:Michael Romanov, the See also:young son of the See also:metropolitan See also:Philaret, who was connected by See also:marriage with t'he See also:late See also:dynasty.
During the reign of Michael (1613–45) the new dynasty came to be accepted by all classes, and the See also:country recovered Mlchae% to some extent from the disorders and exhaustion 1613-45. from which it had suffered so severely; but it was not
strong enough to pursue at once an aggressive See also:foreign policy, and the tsar prudently determined to make See also:peace with See also:Sweden and conclude an See also:armistice of fourteen years with See also:Poland. At the conclusion of the armistice in 1632, during a short See also:interregnum in Poland, he attempted to avenge past injuries and recover lost territory; but the See also:campaign was not successful, and in 1634 he signed a definitive treaty by no means favourable to Russia. That See also:lesson was laid to See also:heart, and he subsequently maintained a purely defensive attitude. As a precaution against Tatar invasions he founded fortified towns on his See also:southern frontiers—See also:Tambov, See also:Kozlov, See also:Penza and See also:Simbirsk; but when the See also:Don Cossacks offered him See also:Azov, which they had captured from the See also:Turks, and a National Assembly, convoked for the purpose of considering the question, were in favour of accepting it as a means of increasing See also:Russian See also:influence on the See also:Black See also:Sea, he decided that the See also:town should be restored to the See also:sultan, much to the disappointment of its captors.
In the reign of Michael's successor, Alexius (1645–76), the country recovered its strength so rapidly that the tsar was A/exlus, tempted to revive the energetic aggressive policy 1645-76. and put forward claims to See also:Livonia, Lithuania and
Little Russia, but he was obliged to moderate his pretensions. Livonia continued to be under See also:Swedish See also:rule, and Lithuania remained See also:united with Poland. Some advantages, however, were obtained. See also:Smolensk and See also:Chernigov were definitely incorporated in the tsardom of Muscovy, and great progress was made towards the absorption of Little Russia.
Roughly speaking, Little Russia, otherwise called the See also:Ukraine, may be described as the See also:basin of the See also:Dnieper See also:south-The See also:- WARD
- WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
- WARD, ARTEMUS
- WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
- WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
- WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
- WARD, JAMES (1843– )
- WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
- WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
- WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
- WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
- WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)
ward of the 51st parallel of See also:latitude. In the 16th Ukraine. See also:century it was a thinly populated region inhabited
chiefly by Cossacks, speaking the so-called Little Russian See also:dialect, and until 1569 it formed nominally See also:part of Lithuania, but was practically See also:independent. In that See also:year, when Lithuania and Poland were permanently united, it See also:fell under Polish rule, and the Polish See also:government considered it necessary to tame the See also:wild inhabitants and bring them under See also:regular See also:administration.
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