This collection includes works by the outstanding Russian historian V.B. Kobrin (1930-1990), which have long become a bibliographic rarity, and have never been published. The collection, dedicated to the oprichnina of Ivan the Terrible, provides abundant material for reading Russian history from different angles. This is not only the political history of the era of the formidable king, but also a kind of mosaic of Russian medieval culture. For specialists and everyone interested in Russian history. Table of contents: From the compilers 7I. Oprichnina and oprichniki1. Composition of the Oprichnina Court of Ivan the Terrible 13Introduction 13List of the Oprichniki 212. Analysis of the social composition of the Oprichnina Court 99§ 1. Sources for studying the number and history of the formation of the Oprichniki Court 99§ 2. Territorial connections and land holdings of the Oprichniki 104§ 3. Social composition of the Oprichnina Court in genealogical terms. Political and official past of the oprichnina elite 117§ 4. Changes in the composition of the oprichnina leadership during the years of the oprichnina 1353. Ivan the Terrible and the oprichnina in the social thought of the 17th - mid-18th centuries in 1384. Mikhail Beznin - oprichnik, monk, adventurer 1525. Malyuta Skuratov 156Notes6. Legend and true story about Novgorodian Peter Volynsky .. 1617. Once again about Peter Volynets (Volynsky) 165II. Historian's ToolkitResearch on genealogy, anthroponymy and other auxiliary historical disciplines1. Genealogy and anthroponymy (based on Russian materials of the 15th-16th centuries) 1692. Genealogy and demography 1993. Experience in the study of family genealogy (Protopopov-Mezetsky-Pronsky) 2024. Prospects for the development of genealogical research 2115. Anthroponymy as an auxiliary historical discipline 2216. Anthroponymy as a special historical discipline 2347. Historical sociolinguistics as a special historical discipline 2468. Historical semiotics 255 Notes 257 Name index 318 Index of geographical names 353 Appendix Information about publications by V.B. Kobrina 365