Tagged years. Turinov V.I.

1609. The Moscow state becomes an arena of power struggle. Even the one who is not powerful and honestly serves the Motherland can suffer from this struggle, and the power lies can even more so. After all, they only think how to substitute a bandwagon.

The Swedish king Karl sends mercenaries to help the Russians, fearing that the affairs of the Polish king Sigismund in the war for the Moscow throne will go too well. Tsar Vasily Shuisky is afraid of his younger relatives, who could take away his power. The impostor Matyushka, pretending to be the prince Demetrius, suspects his faithful "boyar", ataman Zarutsky, in treason.

These are the realities of the Time of Troubles, reflected in the historical novel by Valery Turinov. The book is a continuation of the novel “Invasion in Muscovy”, previously published in the same series.