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st of the political policy of centralization. The struggle began with the passage by the Prussian Diet in May, 1873, of the so-called May laws, or Falk laws, aiming at the regulation of the clergy. Opposition eventually compelled the government to change its policy, and from 1880 to 1887 laws virtually nullifying the M…

A Russian and German liqueur, consisting of a sweetened spirit flavored with caraway seeds.

The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia.

olian race, now living in the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, and the adjacent parts of Russia.

ertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian. -- n.

An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia.

Of or pertaining to Lithuania (formerly a principality united with Poland, but now Russian and Prussian territory).

Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district of Russia near the Baltic Sea.

ard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings, soups, etc. -- called also manna groats.

can marten, or sable (M. Americana), which some zoölogists consider only a variety of the Russian sable.

In Russia, severe oppressive laws against Jews, which have given occasion for great persecution; -- so called because they received the assent of the czar in May, 1882, and because likened to the Prussian May laws (see Kulturkampf).

rt sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of. The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance. Bancroft.

A Russian village community. D. M. Wallace.

A native or inhabitant of Muscovy or ancient Russia; hence, a Russian.

Prussian blue.

A member of a secret association (esp. in Russia), which is devoted to the destruction of the present political, religious, and social institutions.

acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitric acid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a red crystalline unstable substance. It forms salts called nitroprussides, which give a rich purple color with alkaline subphides.

A poll tax paid by peasants absent from their lord's estate. [Russia] Brande & C.

A tribe belonging to the Finnic race, and inhabiting a portion of Russia.

Choice; right of selection; as, to have one's pick. France and Russia have the pick of our stables. Ld. Lytton.