This volume includes essays and prose about the key moments in Russian history in XIX-XXI century. The author remids us that history is just people, and there is no history without the people's deeds.

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...

Левана Бердзенишвили в Грузии знают все. Он один из основателей Республиканской партии, президент неправительственной организации «Республиканский институт», авторитетный филолог-классик, бывший диссидент и заключенный печально знаменитого мордовского Дубравлага ЖК 385/3-5, а теперь – автор этой, мгновенно разошедшейся на его родине книги, принесшей ему славу «грузинского Довлатова».

Political police on the guard of morality. The monograph describes the work of political police during 1826-1866, the methods of police, and its ways of influencing the public.