About the book: 2019 / Russia and Poland. Two peoples, close in blood and language. However, it so happened that over the long period of its existence, the Polish state was most often hostile to the Russian one. In our country, an inferiority complex is being intensively cultivated: repenting for the partitions of Poland is the duty of a “Russian intellectual”; remembering the Time of Troubles and the Polish occupiers in the Kremlin is a manifestation of rancor. The book by Igor Pykhalov, author of the bestsellers “The Great Slandered War” and “Why Stalin Evicted Nations,” is dedicated to the history of Russian-Polish relations from the times of Kievan Rus to World War II.