Loss of legitimate power, "hunger riots," invasion of various kinds of impostors, open intervention of Poland Sweden. The patriotic activity of the Zemsky Sobor, the selfless feat of Patriarch Germogen, Minin and Pozharsky. All this is the beginning of the 17th century in the Russian state. Only the election of "the whole land" to the throne of the representative of the new dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, put an end to the Moscow ruin. The people rallied in the name of the monarch. Awakened national dignity and faith in their great destiny saved Russia. As a result, the troubles did not change the sovereign course of Russian history, but only temporarily violated it, but it cost great sacrifices, and also served and serves as a tragic edifying lesson to all generations of Russian people.