About the book: 1975 / The monograph, based on a combination of Russian and foreign sources, examines one of the main directions of Russian foreign policy during the period when the unification of Russian lands took place and a single Russian state was created , — Russian Baltic policy. The struggle of the Russian people with the expansion of the Livonian Order, the relations between Novgorod, Pskov, and then the Russian state with their main trading counterparty in the West - the Hanseatic League, the strengthening of Russia's international positions as a result of the creation of a single state are shown. Russia's Baltic policy is considered against the background and conditionality of international relations in Eastern Europe and the Baltic.