Istorija rossijskogo gosudarstva. Semnadtsatyj vek. Mezhdu Evropoj i Aziej. Tom IV

This book is in Russian language. The fourth book of the series on Russian history. The Time of Troubles and the Revival of the State. A New Dynasty (from the beginning to the end of the 17th century) The books in this series are richly illustrated and contain numerous drawings, portraits, maps, and photographs. The seventeenth century often appears as a kind of 'lost time,' when the country seemed to be standing still. Yet in the history of the Russian state this period occupies a very special place, where both 'fateful moments' and decades of gradual development are densely compressed together. The tightest knot of this era is the Time of Troubles-a truly terrifying and gripping spectacle. A crisis of comparable scale would not occur in Russia again until three centuries later, at the beginning of the 20th century. It is also in the 17th century that we must seek the roots of some of Russia's most acute problems-issues that remain unresolved to this day. The book Between Europe and