Oprichnina

The book included the classic"s essays Stepan Veselovsky about the oprichnin. Written exclusively with support on documents, many of which were first studied by the author, they contain the most important information about how Ivan the Terrible originated the idea of ​​a personal destiny with a special army and state apparatus, what lands were included in it, how the oprichnie yard was organized and what was organized He was different from the previous sovereign of the court. And also about why the oprichnina was liquidated as suddenly as it arose, against whom the terror of the guardsmen was headed and what caused its cause, how the confiscation of the lands of the boyar-queen nobility occurred, the denunciations were composed and executions were made. Veselovsky talks in detail about who was included in the “oprichnaya thousand”, which later expanded to six thousand people, and gives the track record lists of guardsmen, where you can find many representatives of famous Russian surnames.
Stepan Borisovich Veselovsky (1876–1952) - an outstanding Russian historian, archaeographer, professor of Moscow State University, academician