Daniil Lukich Mordovtsev is a Russian and Ukrainian writer, historian and publicist. His purely historical research was a success among his contemporaries, comparable only to N.M. Karamzin’s “History of the Russian State.” But history is clear to us when we can understand the feelings of the past. The fictional prose of Daniil Mordovtsev explores the feelings and moods of bygone eras, it is written in a living and figurative language, it is expressive and emotional. The book includes D. Mordovtsev’s novel about Peter 1 “The Sovereign Carpenter”, as well as the most famous historical stories of the writer.