Бунт и смута на Руси

Sergeĭ Minaev, glavnyĭ redaktor russkogo izdanii͡a zhurnala Esquire, blesti͡ashchiĭ pisatelʹ, postavivshiĭ ostroumnyĭ diagnoz nashemu vremeni v proslavlennom romane 'DukhLess', i narodnyĭ videobloger Rossii, provodit v ėtoĭ knige tshchatelʹnui͡u revizii͡u otechestvennoĭ istorii. Pi͡atʹ glav ėtoĭ knigi - pi͡atʹ videoprogramm iz t͡sikla 'Uroki Istorii'. Ėto pi͡atʹ razmyshleniĭ o ti͡azhelykh i dramatichnykh ėpizodakh nashego obshchego proshlogo, grozivshikh raskolom i unichtozheniem russkoĭ gosudarstvennosti i samoĭ nasheĭ nat͡sionalʹnoĭ identichnosti. Kreshchenie Rusi v pravoslavie, oprichnyĭ rezhim Ivana Groznogo i li͡utoe Smutnoe vremi͡a, vosstanie dekabristov, poslednie gody pravlenii͡a Romanovykh, omrachennye pokhozhdenii͡ami genialʹnogo zlodei͡a Grigorii͡a Rasputina, Fevralʹskiĭ perevorot 1917 goda - vot kakie si͡uzhety derzhit v fokuse vnimanii͡a istorik Sergeĭ Minaev, prizyvai͡a chitateleĭ sovmestno naĭti otvet na vechnyĭ vopros: mozhem li my, russkie li͡udi, vershitʹ peremeny maloĭ krovʹi͡u?..

Sergey Minaev, the editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of Esquire magazine, a brilliant writer who made a witty diagnosis of our time in the famous novel "Spiritless", and the people's video blogger of Russia, conducts a thorough revision of Russian history in this book. The five chapters of this book are five video programs from the series 'History Lessons'. These are five reflections on the difficult and dramatic episodes of our common past, which threatened to split and destroy the Russian statehood and our national identity itself. The baptism of Russia into Orthodoxy, the oprichnina regime of Ivan the Terrible and the fierce Time of Troubles, the Decembrist uprising, the last years of the Romanovs' reign, overshadowed by the adventures of the brilliant villain Grigory Rasputin, the February 1917 coup - these are the subjects that historian Sergei Minaev keeps in focus, urging readers to jointly find an answer to the eternal question: can we, the Russian people, to make changes with little blood?..