Russia and Germany. Confrontation for centuries. Shirokarad A.

Describing the more than a thousand -year history of the relationship between the Russian and German peoples, you often have to deal with a number of difficult questions, but the answers to them allow you to understand the immediate kinship and mutual influence of the two great countries.

Why did Christianity come to Rus' not from Germany, but from Byzantium? How many Russian-German pacts were concluded about the division of Poland since the time of Yaroslav the Wise? Why did Peter the Great create in the Baltic states the "German reserve"? How was the Russian Army on the Rhine under Anna Ioannovna and why did Elizabeth Petrovna need East Prussia as a new province? Could Stalin abandon the Pact with Hitler? Who and why provoked Berlin crises?

the reader learns about this and much more from the book by A.B. Wide -random.