Metropolitan Philip and the formation of Moscow autocracy. Oprichnina of Ivan the Terrible
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The monograph is devoted to the disclosure of the internal mechanism of the strengthening of autocratic power in Russia in the second half of the 16th century, closely associated with the oprichnina of Ivan the Terrible, with a violation of the traditional unity of secular and spiritual power and with the bloody struggle of the zemstvo “conspiracy” of 1567-1572. For the first time in domestic and foreign historical science, the history of the text of the literary biography of Metropolitan Philip Kolychev, telling about the events of the turning point of the history of the oprichnina, is studied. Thanks to the use of this source, the memoirs of the oprichnin of eyewitnesses of events, the documents of that time, the author managed to restore the sequence of destruction of the specific framework of the oprichnina and the spread of its jurisdiction throughout the territory of the Moscow state. With exhaustive completeness, the author describes the activities of the “Council” about the oprichnin of 1568, the decisions of which led to the establishment of the Opitic -earth dual power, and also shows the history of the search department of the oprichnina, the circumstances of the struggle in the upper layer of the ruling elite
Author:
Author:Колобков В.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:History & Geography
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-893295-67-2
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