Before you is one of the most monumental scientific works in world history and, without a doubt, the most capital of the classical works on the history of Russia. "Russian History" by M.N. Pokrovsky is not only a truly unique attempt to systematize the past of Russia from the oldest, almost mythological times until the end of the 19th century, but also an equally interesting attempt at an original understanding of past eras - in all their diversity and originality. This is a book about which it was quite rightly said: "You can disagree with it, but you cannot bypass it." A book that re-illuminates the darkest, most nebulous moments in our nation's history...