The proposed four-volume work on the history of Russia has been created for more than 15 years and is intended primarily for history teachers and teachers of historical faculties. It is of undoubted interest for teachers, students and graduate students of humanitarian universities, high school students and applicants, as well as for everyone interested in the past of our Fatherland, disoriented by literature of dubious content and quality that has existed for a quarter of a century on the book market and on the Internet, with extremely subjective assessments and vulgar interpretation of historical events that has nothing to do with the scientific interpretation of facts.