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This book is an important contribution to the literature on seventeenth-century Russia, on the Orthodox Church, on political ideology in Muscovy, and on monastic economies. --Russell E. Martin Westminster College

In this important and highly original book the author brilliantly chronicles the business-savvy Church's cozy relationship with increasingly unpopular (and unlikely) tsars, and he skillfully charts the monasteries' accumulation of huge profits while Russia's economy declined and most of the population suffered. It is here that Gruber arrives at one of his most important conclusions and offers a far more nuanced appraisal of the impact of the Time of Troubles on the Church than the simplistic traditional argument that the Church was a big winner for having heroically helped to end the Troubles. --Chester S. L. Dunning, Professor of History at Texas A & M University<br><br>--Chester S. L. Dunning, Professor of History at Texas A & M University

Isaiah Gruber's new book offers a lively account and an exciting analysis of Russia's Time of Troubles, 1598-1613--a period of dynastic collapse, social upheaval, and foreign invasion ... Gruber has written a riveting and original account of a fascinating time. -- Valerie Kivelson, Catholic Historical Review

In this important and highly original book the author brilliantly chronicles the business-savvy Church's cozy relationship with increasingly unpopular (and unlikely) tsars, and he skillfully charts the monasteries' accumulation of huge profits while Russia's economy declined and most of the population suffered. It is here that Gruber arrives at one of his most important conclusions and offers a far more nuanced appraisal of the impact of the Time of Troubles on the Church than the simplistic traditional argument that the Church was a big winner for having heroically helped to end the Troubles. --Chester S. L. Dunning Texas A & M University

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Isaiah Gruber is an author and lecturer who has lived on four continents and in six countries. He specializes in the histories of Russia, Eastern Europe, Judaism, and Christianity. Gruber is currently a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as well as an independent translator and lecturer.

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