These people fought for the Fatherland when there was no Russian Empire in the world. The Moscow state waged difficult wars both in the west, in the Livonian lands, and in the south - with the Astrakhan and Crimean khanates... The governors of the era of Ivan the Terrible did not write memoirs, remaining the great mutes of Russian history. This book brings back to us the names of the undeservedly forgotten military elite, who honestly fulfilled their duty, despite the mortal danger of ending their days not only on the battlefield, but also on the block of the guardsmen.