Russia on the Threshold of the New Age

The first third of the XVI century. - a time when the economic and political rise of the Russian state to occupy a prominent place in the major European countries. Successes in the foreign and domestic policies combined with important phenomena in social thought and literature. The book provides portraits of prominent political figures: the careful and intelligent Vasily III of, humanist Fedor Karpov, the leader of the militant clerics Iosifa Volotskogo and many drugih.Knigu doctor of historical sciences A. A. Zimina, based on the extensive use of archival and published sources, read with interest all who cares about the historical past of our Motherland.