Brief course on Russian history

"Brief course in Russian history" was written by an outstanding historian, professor of Moscow University V.O. Klyuchevsky (1841 - 1911) and covers the period from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. This work is one of the most important studies on the history of our country and enjoys well -deserved popularity in the scientific environment and among a wide range of readers.
"The legends of foreigners about the Moscow state" are the first domestic work in which the news of foreigners about Russia of the XV - XVII centuries practically studied at the time of writing at the time of writing. The book consists of thematic sections, in each of which the eyes of foreigners represent this or that sphere of life of medieval Russia: cities, trade and coin, army, sovereign and its yard, receiving foreign ambassadors, management and legal proceedings, treasury revenues, type of country, its climate , soils, their fruiting, population, etc