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.

Jewish Geography, History, Ethnography, Sociology, and Linguistics.

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...