The book by the famous writer Alexandra Vladimirovna Shchepkina (1824-1917) at the end of the last and beginning of this century includes two historical novels: “The Boyars of Starodub”, which depicts the last years of the reign of the second tsar from the house of Romanov Alexei Mikhailovich, nicknamed the Quietest, and the accession of his son Fyodor after his death, as well as the most important events of that time - the Chigirin campaign, the split of the Russian church; The novel “At Dawn” is dedicated to the era of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, the origins of Russian theater and the role played by this artistically gifted empress in the development of the country’s culture and science. The novels widely depict the life and morals of the local nobility and the capital's nobility, which in all centuries have been a relic of the era created by the personality of one or another ruler.