'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia . . . by one of the masters of Russian scholarship' SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE 'If you really want to understand Putin's Russia today . . . then you simply have to read Figes's superb account in The Story of Russia' ANTONY BEEVORFrom the great storyteller of Russia, a spellbinding account of the myths and ideologies that have shaped the country's past - and how they can inform its present.No other country has reimagined its own past so fre ...