Excerpt from The Modern Traveller, Vol. 17 of 30
[An empire in Europe and Asia, lying between lat. 38 N. and 78 N.: bounded on the N. by the Arctic Sea; on the S. by Turkey, the Black Sea, the territory of the Kirguiss Cossacks, and the Chinese dominions; on the E. by the Pacific Ocean; and on the W. by Swedish Lapland, the Gulf of Bothnia, Prussia, and Poland.]
About the middle of the ninth century, am embassy was sent from Theophilus, Emperor of the East, to Lewis, the son of Charlemagne, Emperor of the West. In the train, and under the protection of this embassy, were some Russians: this was the first time that the name of this people was divulged. These Russians, who were envoys of the great duke, having traversed many hostile nations in their journey to Constantinople, were desirous of regaining their country by a safer route; and they accordingly requested the French monarch to send them by sea to Russia, an event which took place A.D. 839.
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