The library of the project “History of the Russian State” is the best monuments of historical literature recommended by Boris Akunin, which reflect the biography of our country from its very origins. Acute internal crises and long wars in Russia at the turn of the 16th–17th centuries were generated largely by incompleteness the process of state centralization, the lack of necessary conditions for the normal development of the country. Great Russian historians N.M. Karamzin, SM. Soloviev and V.O. Klyuchevsky had different assessments of the events taking place in the country, but they all unanimously argued that 1612 was a turning point.