"Russian History" by N.G. Ustryalov, published in 1836-1841, was the first historical work that presented to Russian society an integral and consistent "chain of events" of the country's past from ancient times until the reign of Nicholas I. Outlining the history of Russia, the author relied on numerous archival materials, stories of contemporaries, the work of his predecessors. His works, which have long become a bibliographic rarity, have not been reprinted for almost a century and a half.