The name of Nikolai Heinze, a prominent Russian writer of the middle of the last century, the author of a number of historical novels about the history of Russia, is relatively little known to domestic readers. He is distinguished from many modern and later writers writing on the same topic by his deep insight into the essence of the events described, active work with documentary sources, many of which have turned out to be irretrievably lost in our days, an active humanistic and Orthodox idea. The stories about “Mr. monarchy in Russia. Compiled by L. I. Morgun