Riot and trouble in Rus'. Minaev S.S.

Sergey Minaev, the editor -in -chief of the Russian edition of Esquire, a brilliant writer who made a witty diagnosis of our time in the famous novel “Duhless”, and the People’s Video Glogger of Russia, conducts a thorough revision of Russian history in this book. Five chapters of this book are five video programs from the cycle “History Lessons”. These are five thoughts about the difficult and dramatic episodes of our common past, threatening the split and the destruction of Russian statehood and our national identity itself. The baptism of Rus' in Orthodoxy, the oprichnaya regime of Ivan the Terrible and the Fierce Time of Troubles, the uprising of the Decembrists, the last years of the Romanov reign, overshadowed by the adventures of the ingenious villain Grigory Rasputin, the February Revolution of 1917 - these are the stories in the focus of attention historian Sergey Minaev, urging readers to find the answer together To the eternal question: can we, Russian people, perform changes with little blood?