The Romanovs and the End of the Time of Troubles

Episode 145 of The Romanov Dynasty podcast picks up where the last episode on the Time of Troubles left off — and goes deeper into the backroom negotiations, foreign meddling, and the fateful election that placed sixteen-year-old Mikhail Romanov on the throne. We follow the story from the expulsion of Polish forces from Moscow in 1612 through the Zemsky Sobor of 1613, examining the roles of figures like Patriarch Filaret (the tsar's kidnapped father), Dmitry Pozharsky, and the ambitious Mikhail Saltykov. We discuss why the Romanovs won over rival claimants — the Golitsyns, the Trubetskoys, even the Swedish prince Karl Filip — and how the dynasty's survival became tied to the myth of the 'good tsar.' Listeners will learn about the Kostroma legend of Ivan Susanin, the Treaty of Stolbovo that finally ended the war with Sweden, and the controversial 1618 Truce of Deulino with Poland. We also touch on the administrative and social wreckage the new tsar inherited: empty treasuries, roving bandit gangs, and a countryside exhausted by years of war and famine. This is the gritty story of how the Romanovs rebuilt a collapsed state — and the compromises they made to keep it. #MikhailRomanov #ZemskySobor #TimeofTroubles #Filaret #PatriarchFilaret #Kostroma #IvanSusanin #TreatyofStolbovo #TruceofDeulino #DmitryPozharsky #PolishInvasion #RomanovDynasty #RussianHistory #1613 #FalseDmitry #History #FexingoHistory #EasternEurope Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo