After Tsar Fedor's death in 1598 Russia struggled with civil war and foreign invasion.
Referred to as the "Time of Troubles," the resulting seventeenth-century social protest
often led to support for imposters claiming to be the "true tsar." Perrie's well-written
work examines them (whether opportunists or simply dellusion) and the idea of popular
monarchism.

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