... lands, the establishment of serfdom and the consolidation of a centralized, absolutist state; secularization and the nature of westernization in the 17th and 18th centuries, and the relations between state and society in the first half of the 19th century ...
... The gate acquired its present form after having been grossly reconstructed in the late 18th century, to prevent the dilapidated structure from tumbling down. ...
... You will learn how it all started, you will listen to stories of those who stood at the very beginning of teaching Russian to foreigners in our country half a century ago, you will see faces of our first students. ...