At the end of the 17th century, Russia was writhing in the birth pangs of a social revolution. Breaking and uprooting the Orthodox Moscow way of life, the bourgeois-serfdom Russian Empire was born. Many victims were sacrificed on the altar of her greatness - from the archers to the king's son. The defeat of Muscovite Rus' was invisibly orchestrated by foreign emissaries - primarily the Jesuits. They managed to penetrate to the very top and take Tsar Peter under their influence. In order to win the struggle for power, he had to enter into an alliance with the Jesuits and carry this heavy cross on his conscience all his life. A new book by writer Lev Anisov, “The Jesuit Cross of Great Peter,” is about the undercurrents and secrets of Russian politics at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. The book is written in an engaging and accessible way and will be of interest to a wide range of readers.