About the book: year / Historical novel-chronicle about the city-principality of Uglich, its princes and the events in it, which played, if not the dominant, but one of the main historical events in the formation Russian state. Among many of its neighbors along the Golden Ring of Russia with the same ancient, thousand-year, or even more history, this city stands a little apart. What makes it special is the event that took place here at the turn of the 16th–17th centuries. An event that (although not without some stretch) can be considered fateful for the further history of the state. It marked the beginning of wars, riots, interventions - everything that is called the Time of Troubles. Which ultimately led to a change in the ruling dynasty of Russian tsars. Finally, an event for which historians have still not come to an unambiguous interpretation.