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[ Rus` baptized: Supremacy of the house of Saint Vladimir]
Moscow: Charli-Smiadyn`, 1996 436 p Serie: Aktual`naia Istoriia Rossii Hardcover. 13 x 20 cm ISBN: 5868590244 Language: Russian
This volume, one of the many non-numerated volumes of N. I. Kostomarov`s (1817-1885) complete works, published for the first time after 1917, contains the 1st part of his foremost book "Russian History in the Biographies of its Main Personages". In 31 biographical essays the renowned historian presents the portraits of the Great Princes and first Tsars of Ancient Russia from Saint Vladimir (10th century) through the beginning of 17th century, of Russian Saints, writers, explorers, statesmen and such adventurers of the Time of Troubles as the false Dmitrii and his wife Marina Mnishek, ending with the biography of the Patriarch Filaret, the founder of the new Romanov dynasty.
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