The history of the Russian state. Between Europe and Asia. Seventeenth century

The seventeenth century seems to be some kind of lost time, when the country stomped on the spot, but in the history of the Russian state this segment occupies a completely special place where the “fateful minutes” and as long as decades of leisurely development are compressed. The most tight knot of this era is the trouble. This is a truly terrible and exciting sight - the crisis comparable in scale in Russia will be repeated only three hundred years later, at the beginning of the twentieth century. In the same place, in the seventeenth century, you need to look for the roots of some acute problems that remain unresolved and to this day.
The book “The seventeenth century. Between Europe and Asia ”is devoted to the history of the third Russian state that arose as a result of the Time of Troubles and existed for less than a century - up to the new modification