The author of the book, the famous historian N.V. Rybalko, convincingly, with facts in his hands, proves that, despite the turbulent events of the Troubles: the aggravation of the socio-economic crisis (little has changed since then) and the appearance of impostors, we can talk about the stable functioning of the system of state (ordered) institutions of that time. This paradoxical conclusion is drawn on the basis of numerous documentary sources with which the present publication is abundantly equipped.