Rurikovich. Volodykhin D.

The Rurikovich dynasty Rules Rules for seven and a half centuries. The fate of our country is tightly woven with the fate of this kind. Persons belonging to him had a noticeable influence on politics, culture, faith, life of the Russian Middle Ages. Their names are filled with textbooks, films, historical novels. Their picturesque images hang in art galleries and decorate the walls of temples. Historians argue about their acts at this time. The book, offered to the attention of readers, includes more than three dozen biographies. Among her heroes are outstanding statesmen and commanders, revered Orthodox saints and - next to them are people who, in their lives, at first glance, did not do anything remarkable. Some of them ruled small principalities, others wore the title of Grand Dukes, and then the kings of Moscow and all Rus', controlled huge territories. But it was through the biographies of these people, united in the same book, one can trace how the Principality of Kiev has turned into another state for several centuries - the very thing in which we live to this day - Russia.

2nd edition.