About the book: 2016 / The library of the project "History of the Russian State" is the best monuments of world literature recommended by Boris Akunin, which reflect the biography of our country, from its very origins. Count Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy (1817–1875) is a classic of Russian literature, one of our greatest poets of the second half of the 19th century, a brilliant playwright, translator, creator of magnificent love lyrics, and a satirist poet unsurpassed to this day. The most significant in the legacy of A.K. Tolstoy is his dramatic trilogy, tragedies on a theme from Russian history of the late 16th – early 17th centuries “The Death of Ivan the Terrible”, “Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich” and “Tsar Boris”. Tolstoy's trilogy, which caused a great resonance in Russia and had unprecedented success on the stage of the Russian theater, remains to this day one of the greatest peaks of Russian drama..