The first novel of the famous historical writer Vsevolod Krestovsky, “The Slums of St. Petersburg,” has already fallen in love with both the reader and the viewer who managed to watch its television version on their screens. Now before you is the most mature, bright and most silent work of this master—the novel-duology “Bloody poof,” published for the first time more than a hundred years after its lifetime publication. Using in it, as in “Petersburg Slums,” a fascinating adventurous plot, Vsevolod Krestovsky recreates one of the most little-known and extremely distorted periods in the life of ours, slandered in history textbooks Fatherland after the peasant liberation in 1861, insightfully reveals the secret reasons for the united actions of a variety of forces aimed at destroying the Russian Empire.

Book 2Two ForcesChronicle of the New Time of Troubles of the Russian StateKrestovsky V.V. Bloody Pouf: A Novel in 2- x books. Book 2. - M.: Modern Writer, 1995. The text is printed according to the edition: Krestovsky V.V. Collection. op. in 8 vols. Vol. 3–4. SPb.: Publishing house. t-va "Public Benefit", 1904.