Russia and Europe. The beginning of the dialogue

The publication is dedicated to understanding the process of Europeanization of Russia. The author classifies the beginning of this process to the Grand Duchess of Ivan III. From answers to questions about the causes, meaning and significance of Russia"s entry into the circle of European powers, the perception of the Russian civilization of the cultural and historical experience of Europeans, the results of this interaction largely depends on the questions about the characteristics of the Russian sociocultural system as a whole, including the historical aspect and the historical aspect and and Current state. This book considers the tendency of rapprochement between the Moscow state and other European countries in the second half of the XV-XVI centuries. The author sees in the Europeanization of the Moscow kingdom a response to the civilizational challenge of the West, which has already entered the era of modernization.
This gave the opportunity to Muscovy, unlike many other medieval countries of Eastern Europe and Asia, successfully compete with its Western European and Eastern neighbors, gradually turning into a pole of geopolitical power in Eastern Europe and North-West Asia