PrefacePart one. From Ivan the Terrible to Peter the GreatChapter 1. Russia under Ivan the TerribleChapter 2. Boris Godunov and the Time of TroublesChapter 3. Innovations of Alexei Romanov and NikonChapter 4. Poland, Jews and Bogdan Khmelnitsky.Jews in Poland and their attitude towards Ukrainian peasants.Chapter 5. Painful shyness Cossacks - who to follow...Chapter 6. Instructive experience of democracy in PolandPart two. Peter the FirstChapter 1. The stormy youth of PeterChapter 2. The “Perestroika” reign of the new tsarChapter 3. Foreigners and Peter’s struggle with the Russian people and their traditionsChapter 4. Peter I’s “know-how” in economics and the population of the subject territory.Chapter 5. Relatives against Peter and Peter against his loved ones Chapter 6. Consequences of the reign of Peter the Great Chapter 7. Between Peter the “great” and Catherine the “great”. Part three. Catherine "The Great". Another beginning of the tragic processes Chapter 1. Innovations of Catherine the “Great” Chapter 2. The seizure of Poland and consequences Chapter 3. The experience of enlightened Europe in the Jewish question Chapter 4. Patterns and part of the historical image. Part four. Russia under Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I Chapter 1. The tragedy of the Belarusians and the technology of the grain business Chapter 2. Defender of the Belarusians Chapter 3. Those who want to kill Emperor Paul Chapter 4. Alexander I’s attempt to change the ancient people Chapter 5. The idea of the Speransky conspiracy Chapter 6. The life of the ancient people under Alexander I and another Catastrophe of the Belarusians. Chapter 7. Overcoming the Pale of Settlement by repainting Chapter 8. Alexander I and the Decembrist Freemasons Chapter 9. “Biblical Society” to help the “Decembrists” Chapter 10. The uprising of the “Decembrist” Masons Chapter 11. Historical moment - the period of talents and geniuses Chapter 12. Nicholas I and the evolution and death of A.S. Pushkin Chapter 13. F. Tyutchev, M. Lermontov and P. Chaadaev Chapter 14. The first critic and “O.R.I.” Chapter 15. Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol Chapter 16. Nicholas I and the unresolved question