Beschreibung
The Russian statehood and culture was formed in the most difficult conditions. By calculations of the Russian historian V.O. Klyuchevsky, Russia for 234 years (1228-1462) has rendered 160 external wars. In the XVI century Russia was at war against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the Livonian Order and Sweden for 43 years, not for a year without interrupting the struggle against the Tatar Mongols. In XVII century Russia fought for 48 years, in XVIII century - 56 years. In general, for Russia the state of the world was rather an exception, and war was a cruel rule. Put by fate on the border of two continents, Russia covered Europe as a shield from the invasion of wild Tatar-Mongol hordes and in gratitude from it received blows in the back. Defending or attacking, Russia as a whole was waging fair and inevitable wars at that time: it had no other choice. If the country wanted to live and develop, it had to prove its right to life and development to its neighbors with a blade over the course of five centuries.
Autorenporträt
Andrey Tikhomirov, in 1986 afgestudeerd aan het Orenburgse Staatspedagogisch Instituut met een diploma in geschiedenis, sociale wetenschappen, staat en recht, werkte als leraar op middelbare scholen en universiteiten, en redigeerde kranten.
