Tsar Alexei Tishaykh: Chronicle of the authorities

Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich is the main person of the XVII century in Russia. The ends of the century, called "rebellious", also began in his fate, and the nickname of the first heir to the Romanov dynasty among his contemporaries was “quiet”. Usually, if they remember him, then as the father of Peter the Great: the magic of the contrast of two centuries - XVII and XVIII acts. But after all, the very thirty-year reign of Alexei the Tishah (1645-1676) became the era of the great alienation. His central events are the so-called "reunion" of Russia with Belarus and Ukraine (alas, as it turns out, not at all "forever") and the now almost forgotten Russian-Polish war of 1654-1667, which predetermined the initial balance of forces in international relations, which was obtained by Peter I , and made a possible "European choice" of Russia. The reign of Alexei Mikhailovich is a time of the heyday of the Russian Church, the reforms of Patriarch Nikon, the movement to the transformation of Moscow into a new Jerusalem and the center of universal Orthodoxy, but also the time of the tragic split of the church, the raisins ... in the book of the famous historian and the constant author of the ZhZL series Vyacheslav Nikolaevich Kozlyakova proposed a new, modern view of these and other key events of Russian history of the 17th century, as well as the personality of the most quieter "of the sovereign