About the book: 2014 / The last Moscow queen, the rejected wife of Tsar Peter I, nun Elena, imprisoned first in the Suzdal Intercession Monastery, and then in the bastion of the Shlisselburg fortress, and, finally, the “empress grandmother”, who was considered an important and influential person during the short reign of her grandson, Emperor Peter II, are all different sides of the biography of the queen-nun Evdokia Fedorovna Lopukhina. But the fate of this unfortunate woman is interesting not only in itself. It, like a distorted mirror, reflected the entire Peter the Great era - undoubtedly majestic and grandiose in its achievements, but terrible for those who happened to be close to the “reformer Tsar”. One of the main victims of Peter’s reign, Queen Evdokia is an “inconvenient” figure for Peter’s apologists. After all, the attitude towards it largely determines the understanding of the history of the entire Petrine era. As soon as her name is remembered, questions inevitably arise about the cost of Peter's reforms, about what happened to people plunged into the abyss of historical changes, as well as about how necessary and possible such a decisive and irrevocable break with the traditions and heritage of Moscow was. kingdoms... The long-time author of the “Life of Remarkable People” series, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Kozlyakov, discusses all this, drawing on a wealth of factual material..