Short Course on Russian History

Vasiliy Osipovich Klyuchevskii (1841-1911) - the outstanding Russian historian, who, according to his contemporaries, was "talent to genius" and "he has become a historical phenomenon, a major historical fact of intellectual life of Russia", in the present crucial moment of our history helps us to re- positions of the past to understand and comprehend the present. The mathematical precision of expression, along with artistic beauty, accuracy comparisons and epithets is something original and special that makes a memorable Kliuchevskoi texts from college. He painted for us as living portraits Bogolyubsky, Ivan Kalita, Ivan the Terrible, Alexei Mikhailovich, Peter the Great, which gives the impression that he has lived with these people of the past thought and felt with them, got into their psychology, managed to resurrect otdumannye Duma extinct feelings. Resurrected magic power of his work, they became very real for us in today's life. "A short course of Russian history", "Old Russian Lives of the Saints as a historical source", "Legends of the foreigners Muscovy" - a remarkable monument of our national identity, where you can see the result of the work of the Russian people on their past, failed one of the most talented of his sons .