Citations:Little Russia

English citations of Little Russia and Little Russian

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• 1722, The Historical Register, v 7, n 27, London: H. Meere, p 180:

  Copy of an Oath to be sign’d and taken by all the Subjects of Great and Little Russia.

• 1723, Cherefeddin Ali, The History of Timur-Bec, Commonly Call’d Tamerlain, London: J. Darby:

  [p 503] They over-run all the great kingdom of Muscovy, and of Ourousdgic, or little Russia, where they took prodigious droves of cattel, and abundance of women and girls, of all ages, and of an extraordinary beauty and shape.

  [p 515] As all the countrys of Capchac, Kefer, and the west and north of the Caspian sea, were reduced under Timurs dominion, and his troops had pillag’d and sack’d the towns and provinces of all these climates, as Oukec, Madgiar, little Russia, Circassia, Bachgorod, Mekes or Moscow, Azac, Couban, and Alan; and as all the princes of these countrys had given assurances of their obedience, and the enemy who had escap’d with their lives were dispers’d like vagabonds, without either fire or houses: [. . .]

• 1795, “The Adventures of the Baron de Lovzinski,” in Lady’s Magazine, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, p 27:

  I shall advance straight forward to Warsaw by the great road that leads to that capital, notwithstanding the efforts of the little Russian bands who hover continually in its neighbourhood.

• 1807, The Literary Panorama, v 2, London: C. Taylor:

  [p 129, “Description of the Ukraine”] The origin of the Ukrainians, commonly denominated Cozaks, and lately distinguished by the name of Malo-Russians (Little Russians, inhabitants of Little Russia; the word Malo-Russia, or Little Russia, being often used as a substitute for that of Ukraine) is lost, like that of many other nations, in the confusion and ignorance of former ages; though, unquestionably, they are a race of the ancient Sclavonians, and not, as some have imagined, a tribe of the Scythians, whose real descendants appear to be the Calmuks, excelling now, as ever, in the use of bows and arrows; nor is their dexterity in these weapons less wonderful than what is related of the ancient Scythians.

  [p 129, note] *This statement of the extent and population refers only to the usual division of Little Russia into the three governments of Kiow, Chernigou, and Nowgorod Sieversky: on this scale the country extends from 50 to 53 degrees of north latitude; but if the government of Charkow and a considerable part of that of Ekaterinoslaw or Novorosiysk should be added to it, they being chiefly peopled with Little Russians or Malo-Russians, the extent and population would be proportionately greater.