Brief course in Russian history

A short course in Russian history was written by an outstanding historian, professor of Moscow University V.O. Klyuchevsky (1841–1911) and covers the period from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century. This work is one of the most important studies on the history of our country and enjoys well -deserved popularity in the scientific environment and at a wide range of readers. ”The legends of foreigners about the Moscow state” is the first domestic work in which the news of foreigners practically exhausted at the time of writing was studied at the time of writing. About Russia XV - XVII centuries.

The book consists of thematic sections, in each of which the eyes of foreigners present this or another area of ​​life of medieval Russia: cities, trade and coin, army, sovereign and its court, reception of foreign ambassadors, management and legal proceedings, income treasury, type of country, its climate, soil, their fruiting, population, etc.