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KUSKOQUIM RIVER KUTAIEH 65 ceived a professorship at Aarau. He pub- lished popular manuals of German poetry (3 vols., Zurich, 1840-'43) and prose (3 vols., 1845-'6). Among his works are Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (4 vols., Leipsic, 1851- '72), Leitfaden zur Geschichte der deutschen Literatur (1860; 4th ed., 1872), Deutsche Bibliothek (10 vols., 1862-'8), and Bibliothelc der deutschen Nationalliteratur (125 numbers, Hildburghausen, 1867-'72). RISROQUOI RIVER. See ALASKA. RUSSNACHT, a village of the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland, at the foot of the Rigi, on a N. arm of the lake and 8 m. N. E. of the city of Lucerne, at the bottom of the bay of Kussnacht; pop. in 1870, 2,853. It is cele- brated for its association with William Tell. Near it is the ruined wall called Gessler's castle, although it has been discovered that it never belonged to him ; also the hollow way, referred to in Schiller's drama of " Tell," through which the Swiss patriot shot Gessler with his unerr- ing arrow. The hollow way has almost dis- appeared through the building of a new road. At the end of the lane stands Tell's chapel, which was originally dedicated to the "Four- teen Helpers in Need " (the Saviour, the Vir- gin, and the apostles). There is another vil- lage of the same name on the lake and 4 m. S. S. E. of the city of Zurich ; pop. about 2,500. RUSTENDJI, or Risten^jeh, a town of Euro- pean Turkey, in the Dobrudja, the N. E. part of the vilayet of the Tuna (Danube), 70 m. E. by N. of Silistria, on the Black sea ; pop. about 5,000. It stands upon a level but elevated point of land, which almost assumes the form of a peninsula, near the termination of Trajan's wall, of which traces still exist. The port of Kustendji is shallow, but affords safe anchorage during the summer. The town was called Con- stantia in ancient times, after a sister of Con- stantine the Great, who built it, and is still called Kostantza by the modern Greeks. A railway, about 35 m. long, here connects the Danube with the Black sea, and has greatly increased the prosperity of the town. Inscrip- tions and other remains of the ancient city of Tomi, where Ovid died, have recently been found in the vicinity of Kustendji. RUSTRIN, or (list i in, a town of Prussia, in the province of Brandenburg, near the junction of the Warthe with the Oder, which is spanned by a bridge about 900 ft. long, on the railway from Berlin to Dantzic, 48 m. E. of the former city; pop. in 1871, 10,122, exclusive of the garrison. It is a fortress of the third rank, and contains three suburbs, a royal palace, two churches, a gymnasium, and several other schools. In the vicinity are many sugar refi- neries, and the local and coasting trade is ac- tive. It was founded early in the 16th cen- tury, and became the capital of the Neumark and of the margrave John, known as John of Kiistrin and as John the Wise, a zealous re- former, who built the fortress and the palace, covering the latter with copper. Frederick the Great, while crown prince, was confined here for a time by his father ; and Lieut. Katt, his intimate friend and alleged accomplice in his proposed flight to England, was beheaded here, Nov. 6, 1730. The fortress was bombarded by the Russians, Aug. 15-22, 1758, and saved only from utter destruction by Frederick the Great. Soon after the battle of Jena (1806) the Prus- sian commander hastily surrendered it, though it had sufficient provisions to hold out for a long time; and the French occupied it till early in 1814, when they capitulated. RUTAIEH, or Rutaya, a town of Asiatic Tur- key, capital of a district of the same name in Kutaieh. the vilayet of Khodavendighiar, 170 m. N. E. of Smyrna, on the Kutaieh-su, the principal upper branch of the Pursak; pop. about 60,- 000. It is the centre of the district where