The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Ragozin, Zenäide Alexeievna

RAGOZIN, rä-gō'zēn, Zenäide Alexeievna, Russian-American writer: b. Russia, 1835. She traveled widely in Europe and in 1874 came to the United States. She is a member of the leading American and European literary societies, and has achieved a wide reputation as an author. Her most important books are ‘The Story of Chaldea’ (1886); ‘The Story of Assyria’ (1887); ‘The Story of Media, Babylon, and Persia’ (1888); ‘ History of the World’; ‘Siegfried, the Hero of the Netherlands’ (1898); ‘Roland, the Paladin of France’ (1899); ‘Salammbo, the Maid of Carthage’ (1899).