Russians and Swedes from Rurik to Lenin. Kovalenko G.

The book of popular essays of the leading researcher of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Kovalenko talks about little-known, unknown or forgotten episodes from a thousand-year history of relations between Russia and Sweden, in which rivalry is closely intertwined with cooperation, and contacts with conflicts. The unbiased gaze of the Russian scientist, covering the whole variety of Russian-Swedish relationships in economic, cultural, political, and sometimes military spheres, demonstrates how much common between Russia and Sweden.