Ivan the Terrible. Peter the Great. Menshikov. Potemkin. Demidovs. Biographical Essays

The biographies collected in this volume were published about a hundred years ago as separate books in the series "The Lives of Remarkable People", produced by F. F. Pavlenkov (1839-1900). Written in a new genre of poetic chronicle and historical-cultural research for that time, these texts retain their informative and energetic-psychological value to this day.

Originally written "for ordinary people", for the Russian province, today they can be recommended not only to bibliophiles but also to a very wide readership: both to those who are completely unacquainted with the history and psychology of great individuals, and to those for whom these subjects are their profession.