The Time of Troubles was a period of great upheaval in Russian history. It began when the ancient ruling dynasty died out in 1598 and Boris Godunov defeated rival boyars to become the tsar. For more t
Upon publication in 2001, Russia’s First Civil War by Chester Dunning was greeted by scholars as a “historical tour de force,” the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of Troubles. Now av
"When Captain Jacques Margeret returned to France in1606 after some six years of service in Muscovy, he was commissioned by Henry IV to compile a description of that little-known land. The result, whi
Persuasively argues for including the original, 1825 version of the play Boris Godunov (later eclipsed by the “politically correct” edition) in the canon of Pushkin’s wor
