The Troubled Years

1609. The Moscow state becomes a battleground for power. Even those who are not power-hungry and serve their homeland honestly can suffer from this struggle, and the power-seekers can suffer even more. They only think about how to trip each... other up.
The Swedish King Charles sends mercenaries to help the Russians, fearing that Polish King Sigismund's affairs in the war for the Moscow throne will go too well. Tsar Vasily Shuisky fears his younger relatives who might take power from him. The impostor Matyushka, pretending to be Tsarevich Dmitry, suspects his loyal "boyar", Ataman Zarutskiy, of treason.
Such 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 of Moscow", previously published in this series.