The best historians of Russia tried to give the gloomy and heroic reign of the first Russian Tsar a correct assessment, to integrate the era of Ivan the Terr...

“The word is given to teachers not to lull their own thoughts, but to awaken someone else’s” - this aphorism of the outstanding Russian historian Vasily Osip...

The gloomy figure of Tsar Ivan the Terrible obscures the history of almost the entire Russian Middle Ages. They argued about him during his lifetime, and the...

The library of the project “History of the Russian State” is the best monuments of historical literature recommended by Boris Akunin, which reflect the biogr...

This book by the famous writer-historian Valery Shambarov is unusual. It is specially written in simple and accessible language so that any student can under...

The colorful figure of Ivan the Terrible has always attracted the attention of not only historians, but also literary and artistic figures. His whole life - ...

Second half of the 16th century. - an important stage in the history of the Russian state. The sharp turn from boyar rule to reforms and the oprichnina that ...

Tsar Ivan the Terrible is one of the most controversial rulers in Russian history. A talented statesman, a wise reformer - and a bloody tyrant, a man who plu...

Vasily III and his son Ivan IV the Terrible. Their fates still raise many questions among scientists... How did it happen that Vasily III turned out to be th...

“Ivan the Terrible” - notes by the outstanding Russian historian Sergei Fedorovich Platonov (1860–1933). The troubled times that fell during the era of Ivan ...

Ivan the Terrible is perhaps one of the most controversial and odious personalities in Russian history. A talented statesman, a wise reformer and... a bloody...

“The second collector of all the Russian lands” (according to Ivan Timofeev), the famous statesman Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible, was an outstanding writer o...