The article by Y.N. Rabinovich is dedicated to that period in the Time of Troubles in the Russian North which hadn’t been studied in detail by other historians. The article regards the destiny of one of the small towns of Russia, which was involved into the flood of events, related to the struggle of Pskov against Novgorod and the Swedish interventionists. The tangled chronology of the Times of Troubles in the district of Porkhov is studied thoroughly.
