The teaching materials for the History of Russia course based on the lectures by Associate Professor Andrey Tereshchuk have been developed at the Faculty of Philology, St. Petersburg State University. The course is not aimed at mere mechanical digestion of some minimal knowledge of major events and dates of the Russian history prescribed by the syllabus. It is aimed at the formation in the students’ minds of a clear image of the historical past based upon the data provided by history, cultural studies, literary studies, and other humanities.