There are several general accounts of the history of early modern Russia: P.

Dukes,
The Making of Russian Absolutism (London, 1982); R. Pipes, Russia under the
Old Regime, 2nd edition (London, 1995); L. Kochan and J. Keep, The Making of
Modern Russia from Kiev and Rus’to the Collapse of the Soviet Union, 3rd edition
(London, 1997). For one important early ruler, see I. de Madariaga, Ivan the
Terrible (London, 2005).