talks

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 talks in Ladoga, followed by the making of the Stolbov agreement. The article covers in detail the development of the talks on the background of quickly changing military and political situation, the main event of which was a march of Charles Gullenalm for Pskov.

In the center of attention of the article is the life of one of the little-known figures of the Time of Troubles, who was in the center of events, related to the formation of the Novgorod-Swedish political union, and the negotiations in Yaroslavl between the leaders of the Nizhny Novgorod’s militia and Novgorod’s citizens. The author considers the following life of this person in detail, his joining the government of Michael Romanov, his post of voevoda of Saratov, taking part in the construction of a new fortress in Astrakhan.