For the better part of a decade John Guy mined long-overlooked archives, scouring handwritten letters and court documents to sweep away myths and rumors. This prodigious historical detective work has enabled him to reveal, for the first time, the woman be
Российское предпринимательство XVIII - начала XX столетий, его деловые , культурные и нравственно-этические традиции представлены в конкретных образах людей делового мира и творческой интеллигенции. Все они добились успеха благодаря личной энергии, таланту, знаниям и огромному трудолюбию. Основная часть альманаха посвящена знаменитому роду уральских горнозаводчиков - Демидовых.
Russia crossed the threshold of its third millenium in a very unhealthy state - its political and economic confusion has led to a demographic catastrophe. Perhaps in as little as 50 years, the population will fall by 25% and the 21st century could be its last.
The new book by Svetlana Arro is about the dynastic ties between Russia and Germany in the 19th century, when the two countries became related thanks to numerous marriages of grand dukes, princesses, princes, princesses, kings and kings. These relationshi
The author writes about the little-known Azerbaijani Democratic Republic and its relations with the new state of Soviet Russia. Both governments arose from the collapse of Imperial Russia in 1917.
Ivan the Terrible was the first officially declared tsar of Russia. A person who expanded Russia's limits. A person who laid the groundwork for a state system, created a real government from the semi-independent feudal principalities. A person who carried out the most serious reforms in many spheres of life-reforms which, without exaggeration, transformed the old, obsolete Rus' into a real state. Although he is most often portrayed in the role of a loathsome butcher, spilling blood everywhere he went, this is simply entertainment for the sake of a certain sense of sadism in his native country, for the love of execution and torture. The figure of Ivan the Terrible is too majestic and complicated to approach from primitive judgments and abstract intellectual humanism.
The book covers the period from the Peace of Westphalia (1648) until today. The textbook used in some materials which became accessible only in recent years.
Theodore Roosevelt's Rubicon is a biography of one of the most prominent politicians in the history of the United States. Famous naturalist and writer, traveler, cowboy and sheriff, the first American Nobel Prize winner and the 26th US President.