[Footnote 50: The haughty proverb, "Who can resist God and
the great Novogorod?" is applied by M. Leveque (Hist. de
Russie, tom. i. p. 60) even to the times that preceded the
reign of Ruric. In the course of his history he frequently
celebrates this republic, which was suppressed A.D. 1475,
(tom. ii. p. 252 - 266.) That accurate traveller Adam
Olearius describes (in 1635) the remains of Novogorod, and
the route by sea and land of the Holstein ambassadors, tom.
i. p. 123 - 129.]