John III the Great, the first Russian ruler

Before you, the book on the first Russian siza John Ivanna III (1440-1505) is a brilliant personality that stood at the origins of our state. Based on it - genuine, reached the days of the end of the XV - early XVI century. They allow us to hear the short voice of our old ancestors, first of charge, learn how our state was created. "The chronicle of life" is preceding essays about John III and its outstanding contemporaries. Among them is his spouse - Byzantine Tsarevna Sophia Paleologist, a talented deck ambassador and heretic Fyodor Kuritsyn, Wrestlers with heresy - Rev. Igumen Joseph Voltsky and Archbishop Gennady Novgorod, diplomats, governors, artists ...
This work is a tribute to respect and, a kind, a monument to our first state of John III, whom contemporaries and descendants also called the Great, and Terrible, and Orthodox, and the Holy