873 pages including index, appendices; 2 volumes are numbered consecutively. Black hard covers with gold design and lettering show almost no edgewear; dust jackets taped to covers; usual ex-library markings on inside front and back covers, title pages. "In the history of Russia, 1547-1682 were years of imperial expansion and disastrous defeats, of reform and terror, of revolution and reconstruction...[the author] examines the idological foundations of the Tsardom and the establishment of the Romanov dynasty in 1613."

Noisbn; Russian Rulers 1547-1682; Russian History, 1547-1682; Romanov Dynasty, Russia, Establishment;