Struggle for Smolensk (16th-17th centuries)

The struggle for Smolensk, which was rightly called the key to Moscow, its accession to Moscow at the beginning of the XVI century. And the loss at the beginning of the XVII century. They are associated with two important stages of Russian history - the collection of Russian lands around Moscow and the crisis of the formed Russian statehood. It is the events related to Smolensk that are discussed in detail in the proposed book.
The labor published in 1940 has not been reprinted since then, and the reader, unusual to the unusual in those days, quoting the texts of the classics of Marxism and the class approach, this may seem strange, but all this more than compensate for the coverage and appeal to many rare historical sources. Before us unfolds an epic historical canvas, saturated with many interesting details. Everyday being, betrayal and a military feat are adjacent to the pages of the book