The action of the historical novels by Konstantin Georgievich Schildkret (1886-1965) “Rebel” (1929) and “Mamura” (1933) takes readers to the distant era of the late 17th - early 18th centuries. The hard life of the forced Russian people, which led to serious fluctuations in his environment, including religious ones; the struggle for the throne between Sophia and the Naryshkins; the life of Peter I, full of the greatest achievements, are the main storylines of the works, written in an amazing, easy language that helps the author create an image of the time being described, full of turbulence, on the one hand, and great transformations, on the other.