The classic work of the outstanding Russian historian Sergey Mikhailovich Solovyov is one of the main achievements of Russian historical science in the 19th century. Solovyov is rightly called "the first among equals" among the constellation of the greatest Russian researchers, including N. Karamzin, V. Klyuchevsky, N. Kostomarov, A. Presnyakov, T. Granovsky, S. Platonov, and many others.
Volume Three of the large-scale 29-volume edition is devoted to the era from the end of the reign of Mstislav of Tver (Toropets) to the time of the reign of Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy.