Смутное время

by Kazimierz Waliszewski, Казимир Валишевский, Boris Akunin (Editor)

Библиотека проекта «История Российского государства» – это рекомендованные Борисом Акуниным лучшие памятники исторической литературы, в которых отражена биография нашей страны, от самых ее истоков.

Книга «Смутное время» польского историка Казимира Валишевского (1849–935) дает вполне законченную, сжатую и красивую картину самой бурной эпохи в истории России. Вихрь событий, в начале XVII века охвативший громадное пространство Восточной Европы, пестрый калейдоскоп оригинальнейших, часто загадочных личностей, вращавшихся в его волнах, давно приковывает к себе внимание историков, писателей и читателей.

570 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1906

About the author

Kazimierz Klemens Waliszewski (1849–1935) was a Polish author of history, who studied in Warsaw and Paris, and wrote primarily about Russian history.

Born in Poland, but a long resident in France, Waliszewski wrote a detailed, scholarly works covering nearly three centuries of Russian history: from Ivan the Terrible to the end of the nineteenth century. He began research in 1870, and devoted over thirty years of work in libraries and archives in Paris, London, Berlin, Vienna, and Saint Petersburg. Several of his works written in French were translated into other languages. Waliszewski, also researched Polish history, and his book, Poland, the Unknown, offers a defence of the country's history against hostile Russian and German interpretations.

As a man of letters, Waliszewski expressed his intention to introduce Joseph Conrad to the Polish public in 1903, after the two had exchanged a number of letters.