Ivan groznyj. Double portrait. Vipper R., Platonov S.

The book includes the work of two outstanding domestic historians Robert Vipper and Sergei Platonov. Any after another shortly after the October Revolution, they are still free from the ideological restrictions imposed from outside - in contrast to the subsequent editions of Vipper's work published here, in which his opponents saw (possibly not quite fair) the apology of Stalinism. In relation to the outstanding personality of Ivan the Terrible Vipper and Platonov, they agree in some ways, they diverge in some ways, they stop on different aspects of his activities, find their explanations for his actions, arrange accents in their own way, but the portrait of the king, whose reign whose rule becomes more voluminous The most important period of Russian history.

Robert Vipper (1859–1954) - Professor of Moscow University (1916), Professor of the University of Latvia (1924), Academician of the USSR (1943). Sergey Platonov (1860-1933)-Professor of St. Petersburg University (1912), Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1920).