Russian history from ancient times

"e;Monuments of historical literature"e; - a new series of electronic books by the Multimedia Publishing House Strelbitsky. This series includes works of various genres: historical novels and novels, scientific works on history, popular science essays and essays, chronicles, biographies, memoirs, and even works by Russian tsars. What unites them is that almost every book has become a milestone, an event or an integral part of history itself. This is a series for those who are inclined not to rewrite history, but to comprehend it, using primary sources without notes and interpretations. "e;Russian history from ancient times"e; consists of 2 parts. M.S. Pokrovsky (1868-1932), a Marxist, leader of Soviet historians of the 1920s. XX century, wrote this work from 1896 to 1899. The first part begins with the most ancient times in the territory of Russia, ends with a period of political restoration in the noble Russia of Peter's times. In the second part there is a whole section devoted to the problems of "e;Western Russia"e;, incl. Ukraine. Further, the Peter's epoch, the Biron regime, attempts to create a semblance of a constitutional monarchy under Alexander I.