Cities of Russia. Lubchenkov Yu.

The history of Russia is not only the history of the glorious affairs of its great princes, emperors, commanders, writers and scientists. The history of Rus' was born in the settlements of the ancient Slavs, where Russian cities later arose. Some of them today already have more than a thousand -year history. The author of this book - a famous historian, a member of the Union of Writers and Journalists of the Russian Federation - invites the reader to plunge into the history of the emergence and development of Russian cities, talks about the most significant historical events or outstanding figures of Russian history, whose fate was associated with one or another city of Russia, with its monuments or environs.