Car' Aleksey Tishayshiy. Letopis' vlasti

Car' Aleksey Mihaylovich - glavnyy chelovek XVII veka v Rossii. V ego sud'be soshlis' nachala i koncy stoletiya, nazvannogo "buntashnym", a prozvische pervogo naslednika dinastii Romanovyh u sovremennikov okazalos' - "Tishayshiy". Obychno esli ego i vspominayut, to kak otca Petra Velikogo: deystvuet magiya kontrasta dvuh vekov - XVII i XVIII. No ved' i samo tridcatiletnee carstvovanie Alekseya Tishayshego (1645-1676) stalo epohoy velikogo pereustroystva. Central'nye ego sobytiya - tak nazyvaemoe "vossoedinenie" Rossii s Belorussiey i Ukrainoy (uvy, kak vyyasnyaetsya, sovsem ne "naveki") i pochti zabytaya nyne Russko-pol'skaya voyna 1654-1667 godov, predopredelivshaya ishodnuyu rasstanovku sil v mezhdunarodnyh otnosheniyah, dostavshuyusya Petru I, i sdelavshaya vozmozhnym "evropeyskiy vybor" Rossii. Seriya: Zhizn' zamechatel'nyh lyudey.