Those were the times when Peter the Great cut through a window to Europe with a bloody ax. Internal unrest grew in Muscovy, some boyars and archers secretly pursued an internal policy hostile to Tsar Peter I. Great European states such as Great Britain and France, fearing the exaltation of Muscovy and the emergence of another great state in Europe, began to pursue a foreign policy openly hostile to Peter. To resist in the fight against hostile boyars, archers, as well as great European states, the great Moscow sovereign was forced to create an inquiry service in his state, a political investigation - a prototype of modern foreign intelligence. And its head was our contemporary, with whom fate played a small joke, abandoning him in the great times of Peter the Great.