About the book: 2008 / Tormented and impoverished Rus' safely emerges from the Time of Troubles, having brought out of it its faith and people intact. The situation in Western Lithuanian Rus' is more complicated. She still has to fight for a long time to preserve her Orthodox Church and people. The Zaporozhye Cossacks rise up to defend Orthodoxy against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Southern Rus' finally unites with the same faith and blood of Moscow. However, a new test is coming - a schism in the Russian Church itself. And despite many troubles, she comes out of it whole and undamaged. Read about all this in the fourth book, “Native Antiquity.” The text is printed from the book “Native Antiquity: Domestic History in Stories and Pictures (From the 16th to the 17th Centuries)” Compiled by V. D. Sipovsky (St. Petersburg, 1904) in accordance with grammatical norms of the modern Russian language.