Train aid, created by leading historians, professors of the Saint Petersburg university, embraces all history of Russia - from time of расселения of slavs to our days.Authors aimed to tell about the most important events and people that left track in eyelids, specify on landmarks becoming turning. In a manual paid attention to the most different parties of life of Russia - political, economic, social, cultural. It very capacious narration about an origin and development of Russian nation and state. And although it is presented as train aid, the material expounded in a book will be interesting to not only the students student on unhistorical faculties but also all home history lovers.A book is supplied in a number of illustrations that in itself come forward the document of one or another epoch.