About the book: 2006 / As soon as the battles in the ashes of Moscow ended, and “the last people of the Moscow state” elected Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov to the kingdom, a new war broke out - the war for the return of the Novgorod lands seized by the Swedes lands. Former warriors of the zemstvo militias had to face the unique army of Jacob Delagardie, the Swedish governor of Novgorod. The heroic Tikhvin siege of 1613 is an undeservedly forgotten page of Russian military history of the 17th century. Kurbatov Oleg Aleksandrovich, candidate of historical sciences, employee of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts, author of a number of publications on the military history of Russia in the 17th century.