The history of the Romanov dynasty generally begins with the first king of the dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich. In the same book, for the first time, it tells about the 250-year history of the Romanov boyar family. The reader will find out how and why in such a difficult and cruel time the Koshkin-Zakharyin-Romanov clan rose and through what complex multi-way intrigues the Romanov clan managed to found a new dynasty. The history of the Romanov family is inextricably linked with the history of Russia. But if in textbooks we see the history of Russia as a whole as if from the outside, then the biography of one family shows us Russia of the XIV-XVII centuries from the inside. The book by Alexander Shirokorad will be of interest to a wide range of readers from professional historians to high school students, as, indeed, for everyone interested in the history of the Fatherland.