Слово "slav". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

The vast agglomerations of men in China, Egypt, or the most ancient Babylonia; the tribes of the Hebrews, the Arabs; the city-states of Athens or Sparta, the assemblies of disparate lands after the fashion of the Achaemenid Empire,1 the Roman Empire, the Carolingian Empire; the communities without a fatherland, preserved by a religious bond, such as those of the Israelites and the Parsees; nations, such as France, England, and most modern European independent entities; confederations after the fashion of Switzerland and America; kinships, such as those that race, or rather language, establishes between the different branches of the Teutons or the different branches of the Slavs—here are types of groupings, each of which exists, or has existed, and cannot be confused with another except with the direst of consequences.

One who was a sculptor, a Slav, a sometime resident in New York, an egoist, and impecunious, was to be found of an evening in June Forsyte's studio on the bank of the Thames at Chiswick.