К вопросу о «скрытой интервенции» Речи Посполитой против России в 1604–1605 гг.
Developing the question of «covert intervention» of Rzeczpospolita against Russia between 1604 and 1605

Summary/Abstract: The article covers the study of the movement of the fi rst False Dmitriy. The author treated several opinions on the problem of the movement of the fi rst False Dmitriy that exist in pre-revolution Russia and Soviet historiography, as well as Polish historiography. The author historian has based his work mostly on the primary sources of contemporary witnesses of the time — their notes and their journals. He studied the composition of the impostor’s army, as well as the army of Boris Godunov which opposed each other. He also studied the main details of the False Dmitriy’s march up until his army’s defeat at the Battle of Dobrynichi. The author’s opinion is that the impostor’s movement was not a covert intervention of Rzeczpospolita against Russia from the very beginning. The foreign army forces had provoked an open military confl ict between the upper and the lower military classes. Despite the formed opinions, the Free Cossacks never were the beginning of the rebel movement.

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