What « Trouble » will not tell about?

At the time of the announcement Troubles I was completely delighted. All thoughts about the second -rate of the average creations of the Russian Gamdev stepped aside, because the main, in my case, was the chosen playing of the game.

For many years, I was simply depressed by the fact that the country with a rich, more than a thousand -year history of the vast majority of artistic works rests only on Great Patriotic War. Do not understand me wrong – I do not dispute the significance of this event in any case, it just becomes a shame for the fact that the rest of the historical periods seemed to not exist for our same mass poll.

Especially interesting, albeit incredibly difficult to study, it always seemed to me exactly the period Time of Troubles, Since this dark chapter in the history of Russia seems to be created according to the patterns of Hollywood blockbusters: here you are also horseman intrigues, worse « Games of Thrones« , And unexpected turns, the degree of idiocy of which reaches the level of films of the notorious M. Knight Shyamalan, And, which is unconditionally important in the context of the creation of the notorious patriotically directed content, the almost perfectly verified drama of macropolitical events that lead the country through hunger, devastation and betrayal of heroic temptation and a chance for a bright tomorrow.

And what was my disappointment when I found out that the game of the studio Cyberia Nova plot will be based on the novel M. N. Zagoskin « Yuri Miloslavsky, or Russians in 1612″. No slurred positioning of the project dancing from Ghost of Tsushima a la Rus to *well, we have aa game, which you want something? *, not fiercely cringed marketing company with merged alpha versions from secret laptops with Avito could not upset me as made the choice of a plot basis for the game.

After all, to make 1612 a starting point of the story in the history of about Troubles – It’s like starting to watch « Supernatural » from 13 season or read « War and Peace » – From the fourth volume. Many characters with their motivation will remain elementary obscure to the gamer. And yes, I understand perfectly well that among potential players there is a lot of experts in Russian history, but this does not change the fact that Cyberia Nova chosen a very strange approach to the narrative.

Here the most basic events of the Troubles in a rather compressed version will be set out. If you want to know complete and detailed information about this period, I advise you to read, as an option, work N.AND. Kostomarova, IN.ABOUT. Klyuchevsky and other domestic historians.

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Reasons and reason

When studying any historical process, it is necessary to clearly know its causes and an occasion.

To the reasons for the beginning Time of Troubles Related:

economic difficulties and demographic pit of Russian society, caused
Reference and ruin wars.

Indeed, politics Oprichnins, conducted Ivan the Terrible formally From 1565 to 1672, And in fact, until his death, the surrealist farce was represented with the division of the country into two opposing camps and the contrast of tsarist power – the authority of the aristocratic (boyar). During t. n. Oprichnins there is a general infringement of the birth nobility, the formation of a new service layer of unprincipled careerists and a noticeable strengthening of the tsarist power. At the same time, the economy and demography in the country are rolling into the deepest and hopeless hole, which will have to get out of which for more than one decade.

All this is accompanied by one of the largest foreign policy failures in the history of Russia. Yam-Zapol Peace Treaty recorded the loss of strategically important lands in a protracted Livonian war.

The dynastic crisis may not have seemed so obvious to contemporaries, because Ivan IV left behind two heirs: the eldest son Fedor Ioannovich and the youngest, Tsarevich Dmitry.

Tsarevich Dmitry Uglitsky. A knife in the hand of this child is an extremely sinister symbol of Russian history.

However, the first was blessed and childless, and the second – died under mysterious circumstances back in 1591. The version of the involvement of the regent acting at that time, Boris Godunov To this death, I immediately scattered among the indignant popular masses and, it is worth saying that there are no significant refutations of this version and to this day. True, direct comprehensive evidence of the « order » Tsarevich Dmitry History has not preserved for us.

The suppression of the dynasty never carries anything positive for the state, and in a compartment with the already mentioned centralization of power and other problems that existed in the country, this has become a awakening catastrophe for Russia.

The reason for the beginning Time of Troubles can be considered unless the beginning of the XVII century and the catastrophic hunger. What will the reasons for such cataclysms be seen in the alleged religious and God -fearing people? Of course, in the Divine Kar for the adoption on the throne, the Tsareubians! And there are already no competent actions Boris Godunov could not justify him in the eyes of the people.

The main stages

Periodization Troubles – The thing is relative, but for simplicity and convenience, we agree that its main events took place from 1600 to 1613, Although, of course, these chronolgic frames can be quite fairly expanded in both directions.

The chosen chronological passage can be divided into several stages:

The first stage It is important, first of all, by the fact that this is the time of the reign of the new dynasty. Yes, very short, but still. Each domestic student knows that in Russian history there were 2 dynasties, but the catch is that purely technically several months of reign Fedor Borisovich Give the foundation to be called Godunovs a full -fledged dynasty, on the plain from Rurikovich And Romanov.

Also, during this period, its hidden ambitions to capture the Russian throne demonstrated the Commonwealth by sending the impostor to the Russian lands, which impersonates itself « A miracle of the saved prince Dmitry », in whose favor the boyar rebellion was committed, which brought Fedor Godunov To death.

Boris Godunov

Fedor Godunov

The whole dynasty on one canvas

The second stage, it is the shortest, associated with the reign of a cursory monk Grigory Otrepiev, better known as False Dmitry I. Having squeezed out for almost a year, with his neglect of Russian traditions and a support on Polish soldiers, he kicked the entire boyar and folk community, after which he fell victim to a new rebellion.

This is False Dmitry I. Of all the possible False Dmitriye, only he reached the power. However, it seems that he himself was shocked by his unexpected success and had no idea what he needed to do next.

And this rebellion, as well as the initial calling of an impostor on the throne, as well as an extremely strange investigation of the murder of the present Tsarevich Dmitry The boyar headed Vasily Shuisky – one of the most eminent personalities in domestic history. You just think: a person investigated the murder of the heir to the throne and decided that he himself mortally wounded himself in an attack of epilepsy. Then he raised the rebellion against Godunov, who, apparently, “ordered” him such a decision, recognized him in Otrepyev a miracle of the saved dead prince, and less than a year later said that it was not he. In general, a master of instant hypocritical reinchors.

The third stage, just, and connected with his rule, which nonukcasinosites.co.uk/5-pound-deposit/ is difficult to call the rule, t. To. The population of the southwestern lands of the country, apparently probing the soul coming from the gut Shuisky, I did not recognize it. At the same time, a new impostor appears, t. n. Tushino thief, A.To.a. False Dmitry II. Acting according to an already proven scheme, he thereby declares himself, already twice miraculously saved, the prince, inherits his wife, the Polish princess after the previous impostor Marina Mnishek and begins to participate in harsh clashes with government troops. After several large -scale battles, justified his camp north of the capital.

Tushino thief

His (and not only him) wife, Marina Mnishek

To fight them Vasily Shuisky Rented troops from the Swedes and gave them to the leadership of his talented nephew Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky. Michael The enemies are smashing, freeing Trinity-Sergius Lavra and triumphantly enters into Moscow. But you remember that Vasily Shuisky – First -grade scum? Soon under unclear circumstances Michael Dies. The probable cause of death is called poisoning, which was quite into hand, as Vasily Shuisky (elimination of the most popular commander among the people) and his native brother Dmitry (He dreamed of taking the leadership of the main part of the tsarist troops).

But the trouble, as you know, does not come alone – since Russia entered into an agreement with Sweden, with which the Polish -Lithuanian Commonwealth was in a state of open military conflict, the Polish king Sigismund III uses the logic “my enemy friend is my enemy” and declares war on the government Shuisky.

Sigismund III VAZ. Well, the famous Svyatoslavovskoye is read in his eyes « I’m going to you« ? No? But he walked ..

Finally at Sigismund Hands were untied, and he could act independently, and not through his impostor agent, which quite badly coped with the task of capturing the Russian throne. Face False Dmitry II At that moment they presented? In 1609, the troops of the Commonwealth invade Russia and were sedimented Smolensk, which will be desperate to keep the defense for about two years.

Total, by the third year of reign Shuisky Numerous southern counties do not obey him, the discontent of which skillfully coordinated by the escaped Kaluga False Dmitry II, And in the West, the troops of the interventionists are operating.

Well, for complete happiness Vasily Shuisky discovers such a hole in the state budget and declares to the Swedish soldiers that he will not be able to pay for their services.

The head of the Swedish Corps did not take the use of this Delagardi And, having waited for the next coup, this time with overthrow Shuisky, I decided to squeeze out something in the north from Russia to pay the debt. Under the control of the Swedes were Novgorod and nearby lands.

The fourth stage, marked by the two -year board of the collegial boyar body Semiboyarshchina, marked by the full decline of all hopes for the salvation of the country. After all, the besiegers Smolensk Polish troops in 1611 could take it, and later defeated the main government forces in the battle of Klushino. Having reached Moscow, they entered into negotiations with Semiboyarshchina And suddenly they received from them everything that could only dream of. Noble boyars, having reached power, let the enemy let the enemy into the capital without a fight and recognized Vladislav, son Sigismund Legal Russian Korum.

In the same 1611 It was convened The first folk militia, whose actions, due to the difference in interests pursued by its participants, were not too successful. But it was there that he managed to distinguish himself in battles and even get a wound to the prince Dmitry Pozharsky. And this, as everyone knows, is the future leader Second militia And the real hero of the Fatherland. As well as his ally, Nizhny Novgorod merchant Kuzma Minin.

And only here the events of the video game will start « Troubles ». Of course, in the game, for sure, there will be a detailed background of all events or some expanded reference book of the world of the game, but why tell the context of events when it would be much more logical to show?

How could you notice, Time of Time As if it was written by fate itself for some large-scale film adaptation, and this despite the fact that I intentionally simplified a number of events and reduced everything that could be reduced without losing the main essence of the narrative.

Results

After successful actions Second militia in 1612, conducting Zemsky Cathedral and election Mikhail Romanova On the throne In 1613 the state of affairs in the country gradually began to equalize. The first kings of the new dynasty carried out reforms aimed at strengthening the central government, strengthening the military and economic power of the state and supporting domestic producers.

Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov, founder of the new dynasty, which will last in power for the next three hundred years.

After a series of wars with Sweden and Poland, territories lost during the military intervention of the beginning of the 17th century were returned.

By the end of the century, Russia entered into a strip of the largest reforms in its history and already at the beginning of the 18th century entered the ranks of the most powerful powers of the world. But this is a completely different story.

Instead of the afterword

I hope I did not spread the stuffiness too much here. I only wanted to explain why the chosen studio Cyberia Nova Setting is, however, an excellent solution and, at the same time, explain why this setting can be them mediocre profan.

It is extremely strange to observe how the authors take the finished plot written in history itself, and for some reason put in its basis a rather dubious, in my opinion, art work. Still, whatever it may be, Zagoskin – This is not Tolstoy, Not Turgenev And not even Bulgakov. And yes, my last statement is the purely water of the subjective, but my opinion is so.

HOWEVER!

Despite all the negativity, splashed out here not yet released, I sincerely hope that in February I will be abruptly Vasily Shuisky look for opportunities for retraining and praise « Troubles ». Yes, the chances of this are catastrophically few, and if this happens, this blog of mine will look stupid and wretched, but I will be truly happy! After all Time of Time – one of the most interesting and favorite periods of Russian history, to which, alas, is extremely rarely addressed in mass culture. And for only one attempt to popularize this era, I am ready to believe that the project will shoot. Even if this faith lives contrary to common sense.

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The best comments

It is clear that the troubled time is only a setting, but it seems to me that the author wants more (like me) so that the setting becomes the main link in the development of the plot, because everything is so twisted there that nothing needs to be invented: there will be more than all sorts of rings of the rings. Moreover, this can not even be done from the point of view of politics, but from the point of view of an ordinary person of that time, as was done in Kingdom Come, where although global political events and horseman games are not fully shown, the life of that time and all the prerequisites for the emergence of the Hussian movement are well shown and at the same time the “external” plot directly affects the “personal” plot. That is, I would like to see not the plot of the character in the scenery of the Time of Troubles, but so that these “scenery” themselves logically affect the course of the plot, because being forms consciousness. And in this context, of course, I would like to see a game that begins either at the beginning of the Time of Troubles, or shortly before it. Although if the game lights interest in this period in people and they will go to read, then this will also be a huge achievement, because this is an incredibly important and extremely interesting period of history.

After all, to make 1612 the starting point of the story in the story of Troubles is the same as starting to watch the “supernatural” from the 13th season or read “War and Peace” – from the fourth volume.

Well, at one time, in carelessness, I jumped from the first volume of Wim to the third and only after 100 pages suspected that Timeskip had somehow occurred inanons.

And secondly, well, “Troubles” is the scenery. When you have BloodBorne in Victorianism – you do not expect a lecture on where the style has come, where the authors came to and what the authors came to. When you have both Chatsi RDR on the threshold of the 1900s, no one also gives lectures on how we arrived in this era, what was before and t.D. As in the « Mafia » no one explains the complex logistics of how the Sicilian guys suddenly got so much authority in Omarik.

Well t.e. It is worth separating the “setting” from the “setting history” (regardless of its realism), because both the scenery in which the story of a character develops, and the focus-in the hero should be, the environment simply sets a set of means to solve problems: to jump from one village to another or flying on a jetpac, explain * inexplicable * piles of random scientific terms or magical magic. And in order to hurt all the difficult issues of the time period of the “Troubles” and how we arrived there, the hero will have to be provided with a chronicler who rakes tons of records in attempts to establish the truth.

If that-I do not mind the post, I do not say that he is bad or something like that, I am not saying that “Troubles” will be a good game or like that, it’s just strange for me: why expect some detailed disclosure of his history from “playing in the setting”, picking in the real ups and downs of that time, etc.D.?

100% of features about the war (at least from those that I saw) concentrate on people on the front line, and not complex political ups and downs of the front somewhere behind the front line, issues that do not have any unambiguous answer and so on. This is in the books of some historians, but for that books are books, and films are films.

A great example, by the way!

It’s just strange for me: why expect some detailed disclosure of its history from the “game in the setting”, picking in the real ups and downs of that time, etc.D.?

In principle, a reasonable remark. I myself do not really like when historians try to “smash some“ gladiator ”or“ last samurai ”on the basis of inconsistencies of historical reality.

However, in the case of « Troubles », if I do not confuse anything, the game developers position the game in T.h. And as something historically reliable, therefore, he paid attention to this aspect. Although, it is worth recognizing that, of course, you can make reliable content without a detailed context.

Another point is that (again, if I am not mistaken), the authors of the game promote their project as a kind of patriotic-oriented product. But this will make it much more difficult outside of context, in my opinion.

But let’s see what will come out in the end. I hope for the best-the guys clearly have an ambition, the main thing is that they are backed up with something.

Thank you for looking!

On the other hand, the feudal lord from the bastard did not go far)

By no means. In history there is no place for appraisal judgments, only facts.

Well, I would not be so openly called bastards, ordinary feudal lords: at that time everyone did not serve their homeland (but what is the homeland at that time? There is no homeland), but to one who benefits. So it was all within the framework of the norm)

- Well, what to say, everyone is stealing and throwing, cutting each other and hanging … In general, there is a normal civilized life.

Well written, talented and with humor. I wish school textbooks would all have been so (including Shuisky’s pictures), then, you look, the level of education in the country would have risen.

Hah, thank you very much!

This is the best assessment of my efforts that I could hear

1612 is an ideal date to show almost the perfect feat without any ambiguous things. And then it turns out that the lion’s share of the Cossacks and nobles served the impostors, and Filaret was the « Tushinsky patriarch », somehow it does not come out very beautifully

That’s how it is, but in contrast to the bastards, the heroes look even more heroic.

P.S.: And Filaret was captured, so the chocolate is not to blame))

Hot, sounds quite reasonable and interesting. Although there is a feeling that making such a story is not a task of trivial.

Well, I just wanted to see the game of the Assassins Creed or RDR level in the setting of Old Rus’ after your article) Besides, I know very well how the author is important to hear praise for a good narrative) In their experience, including . Therefore, it is always not a premium to leave a compliment of suitable work with the word) By the way, it does not matter, in printed form, or video, because even video reviews of games are, first of all, writing work) continue in the same spirit .

I agree, the text is always at the forefront.

Thank you, I will try)

Thank you. I will definitely correct)

Yes, no less interesting and no less complicated.

I think the author’s claim is that not the most interesting historical gap is chosen. But, KMK, here the choice of a temporary segment by the authors of the Troubles is due to both the size of the game and the genre.

Exactly. Something is difficult for me to present a domestic role-playing game that allows the player to support False Dmitry the first and cut the window to Europe a hundred years earlier