Time of Troubles. One of the most tragic, peculiar and interesting periods in the history of our country. A time about which there are many legends and myths. But what was the Time of Troubles not in legends, but in reality? What really happened in Russia at the beginning of the XVII century? Who stood at the origins of the Troubles? Who tried to take advantage of it - and who succeeded in it? And finally, how did the Romanov boyar clan, which had not previously played a special role in history, manage to establish a new ruling dynasty on the break of the Time of Troubles?