The West Against Moscow. From Ivan the Great to Ivan the Terrible

The geopolitics of Russia was born at the end of the distant 15th century. As soon as the centralized Moscow state appeared on the world map, it immediately became the target of intrigues and provocations from the West. The aspirations of the Habsburgs, the papal throne, England, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, and other countries of the "collective West" to control the resources of Moscow Rus, to drag it into a strange anti-Turkish alliance, to forcibly Catholicize it, and simply to lock it in a ring of the first sanctions in our history encountered the growing wisdom of the first Russian autocrats and the young Moscow diplomacy. The pages of the book present the history of the country from Ivan III to Ivan the Terrible with many unique historical facts, intrigues, provocations, and episodes of geopolitical confrontation. The life of young Moscow Rus is intricately woven into the twists and turns of global geopolitical processes of the 15th-16th centuries.