contentment in Moscow. It is clear that in the environment surrounding Svoinn there were people hostile to him, and perhaps even assigned to supervise the hundred actions’), who hastened to inform Daria about Skopin, pretending that he did not send the culprits to Moscow. From that time on, Tsar Vasily and his brothers began to “hold an opinion” against Skopin 2) (Nik. Let.; Let. about the rebellion., New. Det. - Latukh. Steppes, book, in Karamz. XII, pr. 433). But Lyapunov was not the only reason for this “opinion.”11 There is news that even during the campaign the soldiers called Skopin “tsar,” while in Moscow hatred against the king of Shuya’s age was to the extreme (Jan. 1610) (Days, pokh. Sgnz. III, 512, in Ist. Bibd.). The king’s brothers were jealous of their nephew’s success, just as Saul was jealous of David when he killed Goliath, because, the chronicler notes, “the maidens sang victory to Saul in thousands, and to David in darkness.” “We heard the king, they said that our nephew wants to be king instead of you,” and they heard, the chronicler adds, that “the people” said: “This prince, strong and brave, is worthy to be king; he delivered us from the invasion of the Latins, and our city from siege and famine.” This is what they said in Moscow, when Skopin was still standing in the Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda (Addition to the Pskov let. in the Pol. collected years. V, 58. - Cf. also Philaret’s Manuscript, 23-25). Last year’s conspiracies (Sunbulov, in which up to 300 people and Kolychev participated) and the recent unrest in Moscow (Letter of the rebellion. 165; Nik. 122; New Year. 107), which threatened to fall to the Tushino thief (when Skopin stood in Kolyazin), Shuisky, and without that suspicious, already trembling for his throne and life, should now have succumbed to the strongest doubts about his nephew, as the chronicler assures that the latter did not even know anything about all this (“I don’t know anything.” Add. to Pskov. l. 58).
camp and reluctance to expose Tver to the results of its capture, this trait can serve as an excellent characteristic of a “merciful boyar.”
') “Evil people are slanderers” (Nikon. L. and Let. about the rebellion.); “Not a son of a slanderer” (New Years). From the following lines of the video, there could already be suspicions against Skopin.
*) In New years. added: “I believe in it, but the thieves’ letter from Tsrokofya Lyapunov, as if he wants to be a king” (108).
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Between the two; Spopip's position has now improved so much that the allied forces could only direct their forces at the king and force him to leave Russia before he had time to strengthen himself further. The approach of Okonip forced the Tushins to leave; Skopin had his own army of 18,000, but they were joined by Sheremetev’s troops and Moscow Detachments; he had a Swedish army. Moscow detachments boldly reached Kaluga, where the Seeds of the Pretender were concentrated. The king felt powerless in a foreign country. The besieged in Smolensk numbered up to 70,000 people (Soloviev, VIII, 2.86, 812; Karamzin, XII, 100-106). The mere approach of Skopin in Moscow facilitated the supply of supplies and immediately lowered the price of bread, resolving to a certain extent the most significant issue of unrest during the taxation of the capital (Let. about the rebellion. 1674-176; New. let. 109 - 114; Nikoi. 124-Id.)1). The plan for a campaign against the king actually existed in Aleksandrovskaya Sloboda; But, after Lyapunov’s act, the tsar sent a letter to Skopin and demanded that he be nailed to Moscow in order to give him the honors befitting a winner. Dedagardi was on the side of the campaign, as we will see later. Zholvevsky also finds that Skopin’s position at that time was so advantageous, and the Poles were so constrained that the last thing left was to stop military operations and retreat with honor, which was soon decided upon by the Polish Senate, which decided to begin a treaty with Russia
1) A barrel of rye, which had sold for 20 zlotys (15 rubles), now cost 3 zlotys (2 r. 25 k.) (Zholkevsky, 43). "In Moscow there was a great dearth, they bought a chetvert of rye for 7 rubles" (Nikon. 112), i.e., 23 1/3 present silver rubles.