Ivan III - Sovereign of All Russia. In 3 volumes

The rulers remain in history and folk memory for different merits and "merits". Someone is famous for their military victories, someone reforms, someone eccentricities, indefatigable greed, legendary gluttony, animal cruelty, loving or impassable stupidity. The large -scale epic of V.I. Yazvitsky "Ivan III - Sovereign of All Russia" was published in 1955. The work in form is based on a deep study by the author of historical sources, and therefore is perhaps the best of what is written about the personality and time of the reign of Ivan III. True, I must say that not so much has been written. The Romanovs, trying to take root in the pantheon of the oldest Western dynasties, did not encourage the glorification of the Rurikovich, which the first great was of course affected in official historiography and in fiction. Therefore, no matter how surprising, but the first major narrative about Ivan III appeared only in the Soviet years, when the domestic historical school freed from the censorship framework of the Russian Empire (once in other frames) Today, Ivan III Vasilievich gradually occupies the place in Russian history that belongs to him by right - the place of the monarch, whose rule marks the era in the development of the Russian state, the direct heir to which is today"s Russia