The mysterious Russian soul will arrange the Troubles for itself and heroically overcome it. It would seem that so much has already been written on this sensitive and very painful topic for Russia. But!..Everything got mixed up in the Moscow state during the interregnum of the Rurikovichs and the Romanovs - Cossacks and monks, boyars and ladies, archers and hussars... The first attempts of the boyars-“oligarchs” and mentors from the West to humiliate the Russian people. The path of the only Russian impostor who became a king. What did he believe? What woman did he really love? What did Rus' want? Read about all this and more in the new, exciting novel by Mikhail Krupin “The Great Pretender.”