Russia after the Time of Troubles is the main theme of this book. Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich, the founder of the Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia for more th...

The Troubles, once occurring, became the matrix of Russian history. Each time an “interregnum” occurred, be it 1917 or 1991, the resolution of the question o...

Marina Mnishek is one of the most prominent figures of the Russian Troubles of the early 17th century. A Polish woman who became the wife of two impostors an...

The last Moscow queen, the rejected wife of Tsar Peter I, the nun Elena, imprisoned first in the Suzdal Intercession Monastery, and then in the bastion of th...

This man had several names. At different times he was known as Yushka Otrepyev, then as the monk Grigory, then as the Tsarevich, and then the Tsar and Grand ...

“...And the boys are bloody in the eyes...” To most of us, Tsar Boris Fedorovich Godunov still seems to be the same as A.S. Pushkin portrayed him in his immo...

People close to the reigning persons, temporary workers and favorites existed in all eras, regardless of what the ruler was called: king, tsar or emperor. It...