... There was nothing special about this mythologization of the Troubles. Over the long years, the lessons of the Troubles are mainly lessons of the "value" of autocratic power and popular attachment to it, popular patriotism and self-sacrifice, again interpreted within the framework of monarchism. And only the monuments of the Time of Troubles return us to the era of precisely those passions and socio-political ideas with which the then society, shocked to the ground, lived.