Word: sviataslaff
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...understood that bear better than Marx, who filled his Tribune articles with historical evidence of the insatiable Russian appetite for power. "More than eight centuries ago," wrote Correspondent Marx, "Sviataslaff, the yet Pagan Grand Duke of Russia, declared in an assembly of his Boyards [noblemen] that 'not only Bulgaria, but the Greek Empire in Europe, together with Bohemia and Hungary, ought to undergo the rule of Russia.' " Marx also quoted Derzhavin, poet laureate to Russian Empress Catherine II (1729-96): "Of what use are allies to thee, O Russian? Stride forth, and thine is the whole world...
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