Background
Skrynnikov, Ruslan Grigorevic was born on January 8, 1931 in Kutaisi, Georgia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Grigorii Ivanovic and Serafima Alexandrovna (Zukova) Skrynnikov.
Skrynnikov, Ruslan Grigorevic was born on January 8, 1931 in Kutaisi, Georgia, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. Son of Grigorii Ivanovic and Serafima Alexandrovna (Zukova) Skrynnikov.
Degree, Leningrad State University, 1953; candidate of science, Pedagogicaly State Institute, 1958; Doctor of Philosophy, Pedagogicaly State Institute, 1967.
He later moved on to study the Time of Troubles. Foreign Skrynnikov, control over the bureaucratic apparatus (rather than the issue of centralization) was the primary point of contention explaining Muscovite political struggles of the 15th and 16th centuries. In the late 1960s he described Ivan"s Oprichnina as the reign of terror designed to root out every possible challenge to the autocracy:
Skrynnikov" monographs about the Oprichinina and the Russian conquest of Siberia have been reprinted many times and translated into other major languages.
He also authored the biographies of Ivan III, Ivan IV, and other Russian tsars.
(Survey of the reign of Ivan the Terrible)
Married Lidia Nikolaevna Semenova, March 20, 1968 (deceased March 1993). Children: Nikolai Ruslanovic, Lidia Ruslanovna.