Tsar"s Decameron: From Ivan III to Alexander I. In 2 books. Book 1

What kind of people ruled Russia? The answer to this question gives the book of the famous historian writer V.N. Balyazin "Tsarsky Decameron". On the basis of a rich historical material, the author creates a wide web of Russia"s life from XV to the 20th century, putting forward the personality of the rulers of the country.
The author"s focus is the personal life of the kings and queens, emperors and the empress, their neighbor and distant environments, their children and relatives, favorites and the Favorite. The book shows the influence of certain actors not only on the self-containers themselves, but also on the events that happened in the country.
The Tsarist Decameron consists of two parts - in the first book the author begins a story with Rurikovich and ends with the time of Alexander I