Roman Brynsky Forest of the Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Nikolaevich Zagoskin (1789-1852) reveals one of the episodes of the beginning of the reign of the great autocrat, young Peter I. This is a fascinating story about the dangerous and funny adventures of the young archer Levshin, a sincere supporter of the future degenerator of Russia. Contemporaries of the author put this novel even higher than his widely known Yuri Miloslavsky.