Those were the times when Peter the Great cut a window to Europe with a bloody ax. Internal unrest grew in Muscovy; some boyars and archers secretly pursued an internal policy hostile to Emperor Peter I. Such great European states as Great Britain and France, fearing the exaltation of Muscovy and the emergence of another great state in Europe, began to pursue a foreign policy openly hostile to Peter. In order to resist in the fight against the boyars, streltsy, hostile to themselves, as well as the great European states, the great Muscovite sovereign was forced to create an inquiry and political investigation service in his state - the prototype of modern foreign intelligence. And its head was our contemporary, with whom fate played a little joke, throwing him into the great times of Peter the Great.