Cardinal Richelieu. Cherkasov P.

Cardinal Richelieu - perhaps the most famous French politician in Russia, but the true Richelier is not known here. Meanwhile, this man four centuries ago largely determined the appearance of modern Europe. In the incomplete twenty -two years, he became a bishop, and fifteen years later, a cardinal, but he became famous not at all by serving the Catholic Church. He easily changed Sutan to military armor and, if the interests of the Church contradicted the interests of France, without a shadow of doubt, he chose France. Both the aristocrats and the people were equally afraid and hated him, but it was he who became one of the main creators of the victory of France in the thirty -year war, founded the French Academy, established a religious world in the country, without which the French could never have taken place as a single nation. The period when he was the “chief minister of the king” is called the “Richelieu era.”

Pyotr Cherkasov is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, gentleman of the Order of the Honorary Legion.