From the author of the bestsellers "Artillery of Ivan the Terrible" and "Guns of the Troubles "! "Russian artillery, which is very good and effective, consists not only of the usual, adopted by us various types of cartoverts, field and regimental guns, hoses, mortars, etc. In addition, they have their cannons and mortars and other small inventions..." - so in 1674 a Swedish engineer, artillery captain reported on the military power of the Russian state in a spy report. At the same time, since pre-revolutionary times, the idea that the Russian artillery of the 17th century was "underdeveloped," complete chaos and "minimal standardization" prevailed in historical literature. In his new book, Candidate of Historical Sciences A.N. Lobin, based on a large set of documents of the Pushkarsky order (of the main artillery department of the 17th century, whose archive was long considered irretrievably lost in the fire of the Moscow fire of 1812) dispels previous ideas about pre-Petrine artillery as "chaotic" and "backward," telling in detail about the production, typology and combat use of the "sovereign's firearms" during the reign of the first Romanovs, Mikhail Fedorovich and Alexei Mikhailovich Tishaysh. The reader learns about the "squeaks of Russian casting," "short squeaks of the German drawing," "cannons with a wedge and a lock," "guns of mounted regimental," "a large Dutch outfit," as well as reforms to recreate artillery after the Time of Troubles and the Smolensk War of 1632-1634. A special place is given to unique and extraordinary samples - "leather squeaks," wooden-earthen guns, folding and horse-pack guns, captured artillery.