This book, in a fascinating adventure form, tells the story of the events preceding the accession of the young Tsar Mikhail Romanov. There was a unique period in the history of the Russian state when a symphony of supreme power - spiritual and secular - arose, and the young Tsar Mikhail ruled the state together with his father, the Patriarch Philaret. But before the election of young Michael to the throne in 1613, his family, together with Orthodox Russia, survived the difficult period of the Time of Troubles. Almost four hundred years have passed since then, but even today, in the new time of troubles, the events taking place on our Russian land, are in tune with those distant...Vladimir Zobern