A unique edition that has no equal! The first domestic study of the Great Gunshot Revolution of the 15th–17th centuries, which turned not only military affairs, but also the entire history of mankind. With the spread of firearms, the old strike tactics were replaced (when the infantry lance prevailed on the battlefield, and the pikemen were the main branch of the troops) came “fire combat”, the remote defeat of the enemy with massive fire from musketeers and artillery, - so, in blood and gunpowder smoke, the Middle Ages died and the New Age was born.The military revolution, fraught with radical social transformations, proceeded at different speeds in Western Europe, in Russia, in the Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire - it is these differences that largely explain the rise of the West and the decline Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, and Russia's belated rejection of the "Ottoman" military model in favor of the Western European tradition largely predetermined a special path for the development of Russian civilization.