Note 285 — Chapter VII · PROBLEMS OF THE ARABIAN CULTURE (A) HISTORIC PSEUDOMORPHOSES
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
These two figures—the one an authorized Mayor of the Palace before he was Tsar, the other a crude usurper—dominate the period of Russian history called the “Period of Troubles”—i.e., that between the death of Ivan the Terrible in 1584 and the election of Michael Romanov in 1613.—Tr.