The History of Russia: from 13th to 16th Centuries teaching materials based on the lectures by Professor Yury Krivosheev have been developed at the Faculty of Philology, St.Petersburg State University. The course is aimed at helping students to understand the complicated and contradictory events of Russian history, at teaching them to analyse how the main factors of the global historical process manifest themselves in the history of Russia from the 13th to the 16th centuries.