A. Bruckner 
Literary History of Russia [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Country and people — Founding Of the State and the Church Old Russian life: its period of prosperity in the eleventh and twelfth, its decay in the following, centuries — State of culture and society — The Sixteenth century assimilation of the material progress of Europe — Lack of mental culture.