Leon, Emperor, 10
Leonidas, Archbishop of Novgorod, death of, 264
Liatski family, 230
Liège, 1
Lippoman, Venetian envoy, 265
Lippomano, reference to, 208
Literature, beginnings of secular, 219–220
nature of, in sixteenth century, 71–78
poverty of, 153
reform in, proposed, 153, 154
Lithuania, Ivan's candidature, attitude towards, 206
Livonia and, union of, 186, 187
Poland and, union of, 177, 194
Livonia, Batory's conquests in, 317 et seq.
Catholicism in, 317
Denmark's encroachments in, 198, 199
German colony in, 173
Ivan IV., conquests in, 170, 178–182; cession of, to Batory, 339
Lithuania and, union between, 186, 187
Poland's help for, 184; demands on, 186
struggle for, the, 302–305
Swedish fighting in, 325
Lobanov family, 226 Lode, conquest of, 213, 325
Lombroso, quoted, 383
Lopacinski, Venceslas, 307
Lopasna, the, 200
Louis le Débonnaire, 48
Louis XI., barons, struggles with, 2
character of, 381, 385, 386
cruelties of, 216, 254
Plessis-les-Tours, life at, 370
posting system established by, 58
printing under, 219
XV., 262
Louki, plague at, 59
Lubeck, founding of, 173
Lubkovitch, reference to, 317
Lucidarius, 66
Lutheranism in Moscow, 258
Lvovitch, Vassili, 119
Lykov, Michael Matviéiévitch, 217
Prince, 312
Macarius, Metropolitan, accident to, 128
attainted Churchmen, intercession for, 248
council, member of, 224
conciliable, at the, 151
reference to, 62, 71–74, 89, 130
reform, attitude towards, 155,156
Macarius, Metropolitan, Sylvester and, 132
Maciejowski, 97
Madrucci, Cardinal, Papal Nuncio, 331
Magnus, Batory’s campaign, help in, 316
Ivan IV., relations with, 188, 198, 203, 210
Livonia, pretensions to, 186, 187, 193
Poland, conquests in, 214
Revel besieged by, 203
Maïkov family, the, 88
Makhmetkoul, Tsarevitch, 353; captured by Ermak, 355
Maliouta-Skouratov, Gregory Loukianovitch, 232, 249, 271, 366
Maltsev, Simon, envoy, 199
Manuce, Alde, 66
Manufactures for home consumption, 54
Margeret, French author, 266
Mario, 80
Marriage, mode of, 100–104
Martens, reference to, 175, 274
Martin, Henri, 370
Martynax, Father, 81
Martynov, Father, 83
Maskiévitch, 358
Maximus the Greek, monk, reference to, 32, 65, 66, 89, 118, 130, 225, 269
Mecha River, 168
Mehemed-Ghireï, Khan, 200
Mehemet-Sokolli, Grand Vizier, 306
Meinert, reference to, 302
Meinhard, Canon, 173
Méja, 348
Méjja, Monsieur, 380
Meletiév, Vassilissa, 372–374
Mengou-Timour, 33
Merseburg, reference to, 10
Metayage system of holding land, 17
Metropolitans, number of Greeks among, 31
Mica, 54
Michalon, reference to, 95, 112
Michelet, reference to, 130, 216, 254
Miechovski, Matthew, 53
Miéleçki, Nicholas, military leader, 315
Miéstnitchestvo, the, 41, 42, 148; Opritchnina and, 245
Mikhaïlovski, reference to, 222, 237, 388
Mikoulinski, Prince Simon, Khan of Kazan, 158
Milioukov, Monsieur, 43, 118, 125, 242
Military service, 13–16
Mir, the, 45
Missenheim, Hans, 219
