The disturbed state of the Russian realm /Conrad Bussow ; translated and edited by G. Edward Orchard.

Translation of: Relatio : das ist summarische Erzehlung vom eigentlichen Ursprung dieses itzig en blutigen Kriegs-Wesens in Moscowiter-Land oder Reussland.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Genealogy of the Polish and Swedish Vasas -- THE DISTURBED STATE OF THE RUSSIAN REALM -- I: Prince Fedor Ivanovitch -- II: Concerning Tsar Boris Fedorovich, and How He Came to Rule -- III: Fedor Borisovich, Son of Boris Fedorovich -- IV: The First Dmitry and His Reign -- V: What Befell the Governor of Sandomir and the Poles after the Tsar's Murder -- VI: How the Muscovites Dealt with the Tsaritsa and Her Father

VII: What Happened to the Murdered Dmitry and His Champion Lord Peter Fedorovich Basmanov, and also to the 2,135 Poles, Who Willed that the Second Dmitry Should Rescue Them in a Miraculous Fashion, and the Miracles which Occurred When They Brought Dmitry's CorpseVIII: True Evidence That This Dmitry Was Not the Son of the Tyrant Ivan Vasilievich, but an Alien -- IX�X: Concerning Prince Vasily Shuisky and the Second Dmitry, Who Sought to Overthrow Shuisky, and Claimed to Be the Escaped Dmitry.

Also Concerning Sigismund III, King of Poland, How He Intervened, and How His Son, His Royal Highness Prince Wladyslaw, Was Offered the Muscovite Land and ThroneXI: How Prince Grigory Shakhovskoy by Theft and Falsehood Brought Great Harm to Tsar Shuisky -- XII: Concerning Ivan Isaevich Bolotnikov, Who Came to Poland from Venice, and How in Poland a Certain Person, Who Allowed Himself to Be Addressed as Dmitry Tsar of Russia, Sent Him into Russia to Wage War

XIII�XIV: Concerning a Certain Cossack Sent to Poland to Urge Dmitry to Make Haste, or to Commit Everything to the King in Poland, and How a Certain Man from Shklov Claimed to Be Dmitry and Came into RussiaXV: How Russia in the Year 1609 Was Beset on All Sides by War and Tribulation -- XVI: Concerning the Return of Skopin and the Arrival of Jakob de la Gardie with Three Thousand Foreigners

XVII: Concerning Aleksandr Jozef Lisowski, the Second Dmitry's Commander over Several Thousand Cossacks, and How He Proceeded with Them Too Deep Into the Country, and How the Enemy Cut Off His Retreat to the Encampment, and How for This Reason He Was Compelled to Retreat to Suzdal, and How, Finally, Having Effected a Wide Diversion, He Withdrew Towards PskovXVIII: Concerning the Embassy of His Majesty the King of Poland to the Poles in Dmitry's Encampment -- XIX: Concerning Shuisky's Deposition.