“In a tragic situation, an opportunity arose to accomplish feats”: historian - about the Troubles in the Russian state. 440 years ago, on March 28, 1584, Russian Tsar Ivan IV died.
Many historians see the events of the last years of his reign as the beginning of the period of national history known as the Time of Troubles. M.V. Lomonosov Yaroslav Leontiev, in an interview with RT, spoke about the preconditions of the Trouble and how the state managed to get out of it.