The book is dedicated to the study of Russian foreign policy in the 60s of the 17th century. At this time, the outstanding statesman of pre-Petrine Russia A. L. Ordin-Nashchokin put forward his program for solving the foreign policy problems facing the Russian state. The work provides an analysis of this program, shows the efforts of A. L. Ordin-Nashchokin, aimed at obtaining approval of the program by the tsar and his advisers and its implementation, and also establishes the reasons why A. L. Ordin-Nashchokin failed to implement his extensive plans. The monograph uses documentary materials from various funds of the Russian Department of Foreign Affairs - the Ambassadorial Prikaz and fragments of the personal archive of A. L. Ordin-Nashchokin.