The first confrontation of Russia and Europe

The book of Alexander Filyushkin is devoted to a large -scale clash in the Baltic States in the second half of the 16th century with the participation of Russia, Livonia, Sweden, Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Denmark, the Holy Roman Empire and Prussia. The described events became the beginning of a long series of confrontations of Russia and Europe, which determined the nature of international communication of subsequent centuries. It was at the end of the 16th century that many stamps and myths about each other, who had a mutual hostility and who are still alive, were born by military propaganda. Alexander Filyushkin - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of History of the Slavic and Balkan countries of the Institute of History of St. Petersburg State University