United States, 202
  Ural, 3, 93
  Ussuri Region, 252
  Usury, 229

  Vampires, 14
  Varangians, 18, 20
  Vasili, 66, 67, 68
  Vasili II, 71, 72, 78, 79
  Vasili Shuiski, 102
  Verestchagin, 245
  Vernet, Horace, 128
  Vetche, 15, 42, 55
  Viborg, 299
  Vich, 147
  Victor Emmanuel, 213
  Visigoths, 25
  Vistula, 13
  Vladimir, 26, 28, 29, 32, 34, 35, 182
  Vladivostok, 252, 254, 286
  Vna, 147
  Volga (the), 3, 12, 42
  Volkof (the), 28
  Volost, 15, 98, 220
  Volus, 14
  Von Plehve, 278, 279, 280

  Warsaw, University of, 194
  Wei-Hai-Wei, Battle of, 1895, 264
  Western Empire (the), 38
  White Seat (the), 91
  Winter Palace, 283, 285, 287, 288, 294
  William I, 223
  William III, 120
  Witte (M. de), 278

  Yalu, the, 264
  Yaroslaf I, 35, 38, 54
  Yaroslaf II, 52
  Yaropolk, 26
  Yellow Sea (the), 253
  Yermak, 94, 250

  Zemstvo, 220, 239, 280, 291, 302
  Zoe, Princess, 73
  Zone of Forests, 4