Military Affairs of the Moscow State. From Vasily the Dark to Mikhail Romanov. Second half of the XNUMXth - early XNUMXth century

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For a long time in Russian public opinion, the point of view on the military affairs of the Russian state of the early modern period (the second half of the XNUMXth - the end of the XNUMXth century) has been established as something archaic, primitive and backward. The bright image of a Moscow military man who dreamed of serving the sovereign without taking his saber out of its sheath, formed in the time of Peter the Great, made an indelible impression on subsequent generations of Russian historians, who scornfully assessed the level of development of Russian military affairs in the Moscow era. Meanwhile, such pejorative assessments are in clear contradiction with historical reality. For two and a half centuries, from the middle of the XNUMXth to the end of the XNUMXth century, the Russian state achieved considerable success in the field of foreign policy: it not only conquered three Tatar "kingdoms", defeated the Polish-Lithuanian state in a two-hundred-year war, but also became an empire itself. It would be impossible to achieve such impressive successes without having at your disposal a reliable and effective "last argument of kings" - a good, combat-ready army and an appropriate level of development of military affairs. But what was this very “last argument” of the Muscovite sovereigns, thanks to which they were able to achieve such impressive successes? This question is answered by the book of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor V.V. Pensky, which tells about what the Russian military art was like in the second half of the XNUMXth - early XNUMXth centuries, when it was created, the Moscow military machine was tested in numerous battles and campaigns. This study is not about battles, but about the history of military affairs: the size of the sovereign's army, the features of its structure and management, logistics, military finance, tactics and strategy, siege, weapons, and much more.

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Publication language: Russian

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