Ivan the Terrible. Boris Godunov. The history of the rule of the first Russian tsar and his chosen successor

The book of an outstanding Russian historian presents his works dedicated to Ivan the Terrible and Boris Godunov. The first is the greatest ruler and statesman, diplomat, reformer, smart, educated, calculating and brave person. But the personality is extremely complex and contradictory. The author outlined the main moments of the life and activity of Grozny in a difficult period of time and some reliable features of his character and mind. The second is also an ambiguous figure: the personal properties and deeds of this politician caused both praise and condemnation in slander in his contemporaries. S.F. Platonov managed to consider in Boris not only the features of a dramatic villain, but also the qualities of a truly statesman