Russia's past is unique and many-sided. To a large extent the course of the great country's history was determined by its rulers: their education and political talents, their moral qualities and peculiarities of their personalities. This publication contains biographical information about the best known rulers of Russia from Prince Rurik to Tsar Nicholas II, men and women whose fates were inseparably bound up with that of their realm.
Russia's past is unique and many-sided. To a large extent the course of the great country's history was determined by its rulers: their education and political talents, their moral qualities and peculiarities of their personalities. This publication contains biographical information about the best known rulers of Russia from Prince Rurik to Tsar Nicholas II, men and women whose fates were inseparably bound up with that of their realm.
