U kormila Rossiiskogo gosudarstva [ At the Helm of the Russian Government]

At the helm of the Russian government : Essay on the formation of government in the 14th-15th cent. The authors study the formation of the Russian state at the end of 15th-beginning 16th centuries as a process of creating administrative bodies: the offices of the Moscow Dukes and later of the Russian sovereign. The first Russian administrative officials were boyars, voivodes, and d`iaks (secretaries). Supplements include biographical sketches of Russian government officers, their responsibilities, and monograms.