The Time of Troubles and the Church Schism

The Time of Troubles1598-1613

The Time of TroublesPavel Rizhenko, 2003

Yuriev Day: Peasants Leaving Their LandlordsSergei Ivanov

CossacksIvan Repin, 1891

Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich (1557-98)

Boris Godunov(c. 1551-1605)

Fyodor Chaliapin as Boris Godunov, 1913

Sergei Prisekin, 1983

Godunov’s Throne from Persia

17th-Century Boyar

17th-Century Muscovite Cavalryman

The False DmitryTsar, 1605-6

Marina and the False DmitryFranz Sniadetsky, 1606

False Dmitry Vowing to Sigismund III to Introduce Catholicism in Russia

Nikolai Nevrev, 1874

False Dmitry Entering Moscow, June 20, 1605

Klavdy Lebedev

Agents of False Dmitry Kill Godunov’s SonKonstantin Makovsky, 1862

The Final Moments of False DmitryKarl Venig, 1879

Murder of False DmitryKonstantin Makovsky, 1906

Tsarevich DmitryMikhail Nesterov, 1899

Tsar Basil Shuisky,Ruled 1606-10

Second False Dmitry, Appeared 1607-10

Second False Dmitry at TushinoSergei Ivanov

Revolt of Ivan Bolotnikov

Sigismund IIIMartin Kober, c. 1590

Wladislaw IVPeter Paul Reubens, 1624

Wladislaw IVUnknown Polish Painter, 17th Century

The Siege of Smolensk by the PolesBoris Churikov

The Siege of the Troitsko-Sergius MonasteryVasily Vereshchagin

Defense of the Troitsko-Sergiev Monastery Against the Poles

Tsar Shuisky Compelled to Kneel Before Sigismund III

Jan Matejko

Patriarch Hermogenes Refusing to Bless the PolesPavel Chiiakov, 1860

Monument to Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin

Prince Pozharsky

Minin’s Appeal to Nizhny Novgorod in 1611Mikhail Peskov, 1861

Minin’s AppealKonstantin Makovsky, 1896

Minin and PozharskyMikhail Scotti, 1850

The Poles Surrender the Moscow Kremlin to Prince Pozharsky (1612)

Ernest Lissner

Liberation of Moscow in 1612

Entry of Minin and Pozharsky to the Kremlin after Victory

Tsar Mikhail Romanov (1596-1645)

Mikhail Romanov Is Crowned Tsar

Crown and Orb of Mikhail Romanov

Mikhail Romanov Distributes AlmsArtamon Matveev, 17th Century

Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich at a Session of the Boyar Duma

Andrei Rabyushkin, 1893

Tsar Aleksei (1626-76)

Tsar Aleksei Mikhailovich HuntingSergei Kirillov, 1997

The Schism

Patriarch Nikon (1605-81)

Vestment of Patriarch Nikon

Patriarch Nikon and Epifany Slavinetsky Revising the Ecclesiastic Books

Aleksei Kivshenko, 1896

Controversy over the Russian FaithVasily Perov

Avvakum (c. 1620-82)

Avvakum Surrounded by Saints

The Burning of AvvakumPetr Miasoedov, 1897

Death of AvvakumLate 19th Century

Boyarinya MorozovaVasily Surikov, 1887

Solovetsky Monastery, 1436-1594Solovetsky Monastery, 1436-1594

Putting Down the Solovetski RebellionEarly 19th-Century Lubok

An Old Believer

Moscow Revolt of 1648

Russian-Polish War (1654-67)

Stenka Razin (1630-71)

Razin at the Simbirsk Defense LineSergei Ivanov, 1986

Stenka RazinVasily Surikov

Stenka Razin, 17th-Century Print

Stenka RazinSergei Kirillov, 1988

Carrying Stenka RazinSergei Kirillov, 1986

17th-Century Architecture

17th-Century MoscowViktor Vasnetsov

17th-Century PskovSergei Kirillov

Fortified Settlement, Siberia, 1605

Church of the AnnunciationNear Moscow, 1677

Church of the Life-Giving TrinityMoscow, 1683

Cathedral of St. NicholasNear Novgorod, 1685

Church of the Decapitation of John the Baptist

Yaroslavl, 1687

Church of the Intercession, Vytegra

Naryshkin Church, Moscow