Boris Godunov. The tragedy of the good king

"... and the boys are bloody in the eyes ..." Most of us Tsar Boris Fedorovich Godunov (1552-1605) and is now represented as he portrayed him in his immortal tragedy A.S. Pushkin. For the first time in Russian history, he has reached the highest power, not in virtue of origin, not by the right to belong to the ruling dynasty, but thanks to his mind, abilities and the ability to rule the country, Godunov did a lot for the good of the Fatherland, but in the memory of generations he still remained a cruel killer of the unfortunate prince Dmitry, The last offspring of the Rurikovich dynasty. The shadow of the innocently killed prince pursued him all his life and ultimately caused the collapse of all his undertakings and the death of his own family. But was he involved in the crimes of which he is accused? What was more in his reign - genius or villainy? And how much do these qualities get along in one person? About all this, as well as about the history of Russia at the turn of the XVI-XVII centuries. centuries, on the very eve of the Great Troubles, who nearly destroyed the Russian state, the famous historian, the constant author of the series "Life of wonderful people", Vyacheslav Kozlyakov, argues in his new book