Ancient Russia. Events and people

The book of a major domestic specialist in ancient Russian history and literature, Doctor of Philological Sciences O.V. Clygov (1928-2015), dedicated to the main events and current characters of Russian history - from the first Rurikovich to Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Having put the chronological principle at the forefront, the author of the year after the year goes all the way with his heroes, stopping on key persons and facts-the formation of the Old Russian state to the reign of Vladimir St., fragmentation and Russian principalities in the XII-XIII centuries, the Tatar-Mongol invasion and the era Alexander Nevsky, the emergence of the Moscow principality and his struggle against Tver and Lithuania, the dramatic events of the reign of Ivan III and Ivan IV Terrible, the troubles and reign of the Romanovs. For a wide range of readers