About the book: year / The story of the "Time of Troubles" of the early 18th century, of the Polish intervention and the siege of Smolensk - before the publication of "Literary Monuments" was completely unknown to researchers of ancient Russian literature. The text survives in a single 18th-century copy in the Russian National Library (St. Petersburg) and was only recently discovered. The Old Russian text of the story and its translation into modern Russian were prepared for the first time for this publication..