About the book: 2007 / The history of False Dmitry I gapes with numerous voids and dark places. It’s not even a matter of lack of evidence, but the personality of False Dmitry I, who, in the author’s opinion, was completely undeservedly smeared with mud from head to toe and in Russian historiography is present in the unsightly role of “agent of the Poles and Jesuits,” concerned exclusively with the subordination of Rus' to Krakow and the Vatican Be that as it may, one cannot doubt one thing: the long reign of False Dmitry I could well have led to Russia catching up with Western Europe - both in military affairs and in education. Russia could have avoided all the victims and troubles caused by what are called “Petrine reforms.” And in any case, the country would never have fallen into Troubles.