Dmitry the Impostor. The End of the Rurikovich Dynasty. The Legend of the Emperor. Apogee and Catastrophe. Poles in the Kremlin

Historian, director of the Slavic library in Paris Pavel Pirling describes the period of Russian history in the 16th century in this book, when after the death of Tsarevich Dmitry, False Dmitry I, Dmitry the Impostor, claimed the Russian throne. Based on Russian and Western European historical documents, the author recreates not only the established historiographical image of Grishka Otrepyev but also Russia's relations with the Roman Catholic Church.