Crossroads of Social and Cultural History of Old Russia

1. The Origin of Russian Statehood : Environmental, Ethnic and Historical Background

2. Kievan Rus' : Rise and Fall of the First East Slavic State

3. Christianization of Kievan Rus‘ : Civilizational Choice or Historical Inevitability

4. The Mongol Invasion of Rus’: Its Сultural and Social Impact

5. Medieval Novgorod : A Historical Alternative Which Сould Have Never Come True

6. Muscovy : the Growth and the Expansion

7. The Thru Faith : The Orthodox Church in Old Russia

8. The Third Rome and Its Inhabitants : Political and Social Structures in Muscovite Russia

9. Tsar of All Russia : Myths vs. Reality Under Ivan the Terrible

10. The First Russian Civil War : On the Verge of Collapse

11. The First Century of the Romanov Dynasty : New Horizons or Restoration of Old Regime

12. Towns and Peasantry : Feudalism in Russia

13. Peter the Great : The Despotic Reformer and The Birth of Empire