"Centurions" of Ivan the Terrible. Voivodes and heads of the Moscow army in the second half of the XVI century.
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"Centurions" of Ivan the Terrible. Voivodes and heads of the Moscow army in the second half of the XVI century.
14.99 €
In this book by Dr. of Historical Sciences, Professor V.V. Pensky on the basis of scrupulous analysis of a wide range of sources and literature analyzed the fate of Russian servants of the XVI century, who occupied middle command positions in the military hierarchy of the Russian state of that era. They can be called "centurions" of the Moscow army. Until recently, people like the heroes of the essays in this book were very rarely the object of historians' attention. However, such inattention to the "centurions" is clearly unfair. Step by step, the author of the study, telling about the lives of his heroes, reveals a picture of the history of the Russian state in a complex and ambiguous era, the creators of which were not only sovereigns, boyars, church hierarchs and others, "greedy crowd standing at the throne", but above all "initial people" of the middle hand. They led in battle mounted hundreds of boyar children, carried out diplomatic assignments, built and defended fortresses, viceroys in the cities. Their labor, sweat and blood built a great power, but they themselves were deprived of the attention of both contemporaries and descendants. This work is intended to correct this injustice, at least in part. Written in a lively, but at the same time scientific language, the study is intended for teachers, students and all those interested in the military history of Russia in the 16th century, the history of the Russian military and the daily life of Russian society of that era.
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