Yugo-Zapadnoe Porubezh'e Moskovskogo Gosudarstva XVI-Serediny XVII Veka

Zashchita sobstvennykh granits yavlyaetsya vazhneyshey funktsiey gosudarstva, poetomu mnozhestvo trudov posvyashcheno izucheniyu oboronitel'nykh sistem raznykh stran. Naibol'shiy interes u uchenykh vyzyvayut periody, otlichayushchiesya osoboy dinamikoy sobytiy. V istorii Rossii k takim otnosyatsya XVI-XVII vv. No, nesmotrya na bol'shuyu istoriografiyu voprosa, iz polya zreniya issledovateley vypala problema tselostnogo izucheniya sistemy oborony severskikh gorodov, zashchishchavshikh yugo-zapad Moskovskogo gosudarstva, osobennost'yu kotoroy byla postoyannaya bor'ba kak s tatarskoy konnitsey na yuge, tak i s osnashchennymi ognestrel'nym oruzhiem pol'sko-litovskimi silami na zapade. Eto pridavalo regionu osobuyu znachimost' v zashchite strany. Osnovoy zhe russkoy oboronitel'noy struktury yavlyalas' gruppirovka krupnykh i melkikh ukreplennykh tsentrov. Izuchenie sistemy krepostey v yugo-zapadnom porubezh'e Rossii XVI-serediny XVII v. i stalo temoy nastoyashchey monografii, napisanie kotoroy okazalos' vozmozhnym lish' na styke takikh nauchnykh distsiplin, kak istoriya Rossii, arkheologiya, voennaya istoriya i istoricheskaya geografiya. Kniga privlechet vnimanie ne tol'ko istorikov i kraevedov, no i vsekh, interesuyushchikhsya proshlym Rossii.