About the book: 2009 / The creative heritage of the Russian historian Sergei Fedorovich Platonov includes fundamental works on the history of Russia, which have gone through more than one reprint. Thousands of people studied from his lectures, textbooks and monographs. Among the best and most authoritative professors in St. Petersburg, Platonov was invited to teach to members of the imperial family. In January 1930, the historian was arrested on charges of “active anti-Soviet activity and participation in a counter-revolutionary monarchist organization.” He was sent to Samara, where three years later the scientist died. In Soviet Russia, the works of S.F. Platonov were banned. In this book you can get acquainted with Platonov’s view of the history of Russia during the Kievan Rus period, the reign of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, Catherine II, Nicholas I and other Russian monarchs.