With all the abundance of books on the history of the Cossacks, one of the topics is still a "white spot." This is the role of the Cossacks in the Great Troubles of the late 16th - early 17th centuries, that is, in the only period in the history of the Cossacks when it played a key role in the fate of Russia. The Time of Troubles is the most mythologized part of Russian history. With each new ruler, history officials offer the people another version of events. Our time was no exception...