For the first time in the last 70 years of our country, a work appears in artistic historical prose, which reveals the leading role of the Russian Orthodox Church in strengthening the spirit of Russians during the Time of Troubles at the turn of the 16th-17th centuries. In the dilogy “Princes of Faith”, consisting of novels “Patriarch of All Rus'” and “A Power in Bad Weather”, a red thread runs through the difficult fates of the first patriarchs of Russia, Saints Job and Hermogenes.