Tworca krola & kungamakaren. Станислав Жолкевский и Якоб Делагарди в России
Tworca krola and kungamakaren. Stanislav Zholkevsky and Jacob Delagardi in Russia

Summary/Abstract: One of the Distemper’s components was foreign military presence. During that time Russian society cooperated with the external force (Sweden and Poland). The brightest representatives of this external force, who left an appreciable trace in Russian history, were Jacob Delagardi and Stanislav Zholkevsky. Their activity was aimed at fulfi lling their governments’ policies, and they considered as their main goal to create a new ruling dynasty in Russia. While conditions of agreements on the invitation of the Polish and Swedish candidates to the Russian throne were being developed they considered moods of those class groups of Russian society which agreed to call Vladislav or Charles Phillip to Russian throne and hoped to return the role of the Supreme arbitrator to the monarch. Both nominees (Vladislav and Charles Phillip) appeared not as a result of external enemies’ intrigues, but as a result of the struggle of political groups in the conditions of disintegration of the state and deep moral and political crisis of the power which generated disappointment and mistrust to numerous domestic selectors of Russian throne. Neither one, nor another plan was fated to be carried out, fi rst of all, because neither Polish candidate, nor the Swedish one agreed to pass to Orthodoxy. Russian people couldn’t accept the tsar-adherent to a different faith. Besides, Swedes, and in a greater extent Poles, disappointed Russian people with their actions and forced them to refuse from overseas candidates.

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