Note 1469 — Chapter XII · REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY (continued 2)

Nansen, Northern Mists, 1911, vol. ii, pp. 139–140. Adam of Bremen in the eleventh century wrote (Gesta Hammenb. eccl. pont., IV, 13) of Russia as the last and largest province of the Wends, whose territory bounded the Baltic Sea on the east. He mentioned Ostrogard as an important Russian trading city in his time, situated on the Baltic (ibid., II, 19; IV, 11); Chive, or Kiev, as the principal city of Russia (ibid., II, 19), a rival to Constantinople and an honor to “Graecia”—the lands of the Greek church (Dietrich, Geogr. Anschauungen, 1885, p. 103). See Tiander, Poyezdki, 1906, pp. 47–48.