Time of Troubles. The civil war that befell Russia at the beginning of the 17th century. What was its main cause? The terrible era of the reign of Ivan the T...

Oprichnina. This word evokes many associations: from torture and executions perpetrated by bloodthirsty “kromeshniks” to the image of Ivan the Terrible and h...

The historical narrative of R. G. Skrynnikov covers the events of the Time of Troubles and ends with the accession of the first tsar from the Romanov dynasty...

Time of Troubles... In fact, the first civil war in the history of our country. A time of grandiose political adventures - those that brought untold disaster...

The history of Pushkin's duel is shrouded in a dense veil of myths and legends. The author of this book is Professor of St. Petersburg University R.G. Skrynn...

The second half of the 16th century became an important stage in the history of the Russian state. The sharp turn from boyar rule to reforms and the oprichni...

The book is dedicated to the pivotal events of Russian history of the 14th - early 17th centuries - from the Battle of Kulikovo to the period of the Time of ...

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...

The monograph is dedicated to the history of Russia in the second half of the 16th century. The focus is on the oprichnina of Ivan the Terrible: Based on a w...

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

Ivan III. Grandson of Dmitry Donskoy. Deliverer of the Moscow state from the Tatar yoke... Collector of Russian lands... Who was he? “A sinister figure,” as ...

Mikhail Romanov. The first (and last) “elected” tsar in the entire history of our country... The son of a disgraced boyar, who spent all his childhood years ...