Первые Романовы. Загадки и мифы династии

St. Petersburg writer and researcher N.M. Konyaev, well known from the book “Two Faces of General Vlasov,” this time turned to the “blank spots” in the history of Muscovite Rus' and the Russian Empire. Over the three centuries that the Romanov dynasty ruled Russia, many legends and myths were formed that were “grown” into history as historical facts. The real events, which portrayed the role of the Romanovs unfavorably, were carefully hushed up and distorted. And above all, this concerns the relations of the Romanovs with the Russian Orthodox Church, their rejection of the Russian national character, the customs of the Russian people. Noble historiography usually avoided the “sharp corners” and hushed up the most characteristic episodes of this struggle, which actually took place before the beginning of the reign of Nicholas I.

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