The battles on the ashes of Moscow barely ended, and the "last people of the Moscow state" elected Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov to the kingdom, a new war broke out - a war for the return of the Novgorod lands torn away by the Swedes. The former warriors of the Zemstvo militias had to face the unique army of Jacob Delagardi, the Swedish governor of Novgorod. The heroic Tikhvin siege seat of 1613 is an undeservedly forgotten page of Russian military history of the 17th century. Kurbatov Oleg Alexandrovich, Ph.D., employee of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, author of a number of publications on the military history of Russia of the 17th century.