Izobilie i roskosh', bedy i bedstwiq Rusi

V etoy knige predstavlena dvortsovaya zhizn' russkikh tsarey i zhizn' russkogo naroda s drevneyshikh vremen do nachala XX veka, vklyuchaya pravlenie poslednego tsarya. Vmeste s rasskazom o natsional'nykh traditsiyakh, obryadakh i obychayakh v knige shiroko predstavlena tema vozniknoveniya deneg i denezhnykh otnosheniy v obshchestve, bogatstva i izobiliya russkoy zemli. Odnako avtory ne mogli proyti i mimo bed, postigshikh Rossiyu v vide tataro-mongol'skogo iga, napoleonovskogo nashestviya ili buntov vnutri strany, a takzhe bedstviy v vide prirodnykh kataklizmov. V knige mozhno nayti svedeniya o gosudarstvennom ustroystve, torgovle, stoimosti tovarov v raznye epokhi i t.d. Kniga soderzhit obshirnyy tematicheskiy material i prednaznachena dlya samogo shirokogo kruga chitateley.