Modern writer D. Evdokimov worked on the historical novel “1612” for almost half a century, having begun collecting materials about the “Time of Troubles” while still a student. For many years, the author searched in chronicles, correspondence and memoirs of contemporaries for priceless grains of life in those years in order to recreate the image of the great figure of Russia, the remarkable commander Dmitry Pozharsky and his military comrades.