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| | RAMBAUD ON THE RUSSIAN SLAVS OF NESTOR THE CHRONICLER |
 | | The Slavs, properly so called, inhabited the basin of the Ilmen, and the west bank of Lake Peïpus; their towns, Novgorod, Pskof (Pskov), lzborsk, appear in the very beginning of the history of Russia. |
 | | The Krivitches, again, were settled on the sources of the Dwina (Dvina) and the Dnieper, round their city of Smolensk. |
 | | The Livonians on the Gulfs of Livonia and Finland, and the TchoudEstonians, who gave their name to Peïpus, the Lake of the Tchouds, belong to the Finnish race. |
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