CHAPTER XXI.

Commercial Position of Astrakhan--Its Importance in the Middle

Ages--Its Loss of the Overland Trade from India--Commercial

Statistics--Fisheries of the Caspian--Change of the Monetary

System in Russia--Bad State of the Finances--Russian Political

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