The Story of Chaldea from the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria [Illustrated]: Treated as a General Introduction to the Study of Ancient History

About the author:
Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin (1835 - 1924) was a Russian-American author.
She was educated in Russia. She had no regular education, but studied by herself. After traveling widely for several years in Europe, in 1874 she emigrated to the United States. She was a member of the American Oriental Society, of the Société Ethnologique and Athénée Oriental, of Paris, and the Victoria Institute, London.

Works:
In the Story of the Nations series:
The Story of Chaldea (1886)
The Story of Assyria (1887)
The Story of Media, Babylon, and Persia (1888)
The Story of Vedic India (1895)

She did five volumes of biography for the “Tales of the Heroic Age” series. Among them were:
Siegfried, the Hero of the Netherlands (1898)
Roland, the Paladin of France (1899)
Salammbo, the Maid of Carthage (1899)

She wrote a History of the World, and translated from the French Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu's The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians.[1] She also wrote numerous articles for Russian and American magazines.


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