RED Russia, or Little Russia, a province of Poland, bounded on the west by Upper Poland, on the north by Lithuania, on the east by Little Tartary, and on the south by Moldavia, Transylvania, and a part of Hungary. It comprehends Russia properly so called, Volhynia, and Podolia. It is about 650 miles in length, and from 150 to 250 in breadth. It consists chiefly of large fields, but little cultivated on account of the frequent invasions of the Tartars, and because there is no water carriage. It had the name of Red Russia, from the colour of the hair of its inhabitants. The western part is now subject to Austria, the east to Russia.