The Time of Troubles: A Historical Study of the Internal Crisis and Social Struggles in Sixteenth- And Seventeeth-Century MuscovySergei Feodorovich Platonov's Time of Troubles is a classic study of the years 1598 1613, a turbulent and decisive period in Russian history. Available for the first time in English, this work will be a valuable tool for students of the medieval as well as modern periods. Platonov, himself a tragic victim of the regimentation imposed on Soviet cultural life in the 1920s, was born in 1860 and attained immense public and professional recognition in