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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Moscow: Veche, 2010 302 p Serie: Tainy zemli russkoi Hardcover. 13 x 20 cm ISBN: 9785953343367 Language: Russian
This book studies the "oprichnina" (1565-72) as a social phenomenon, the statesmen around Ivan The Terrible in this period, and their vision of and involvement into this special force. Among the people covered in this book are Aleksei Basmanov, Fedor Trubetskoi, Vasilii-Temkin-Rostovskii, Afanasii Viazemskii, Mikhail Beznin, Grigorii Skuratov-Bel`skii (Maliuta). Appendices include principles of promotion in the oprichnik military hierarchy, a list and chronology of the main oprichnik divisions and operations. (0.353 kg.)