The orderly protégés of Sigismund III under the new tsar M.F. Romanov

This paper discusses the key issue of the system management of the transition period – from the time of the Interregnum of Moscow State to the formation of the government of the new sovereign, Mikhail Romanov. Biographies of deacons and scribes of the closing period of Troubles are restored according to individual mentions, mainly in the act material and documents of official records management. Using the method of prosopography, the authors have systematized biographical information of individuals and analyzed collective portrait of employees, which allowed to reveal the general state policy in relation to the managers of higher and middle level of the central administrative apparatus. As a result of the study, it was possible to establish that 36 from 73 persons, fixed in the service in the boyar government of Moscow and under Sigismund III continued to work in the new government of Mikhail Romanov. From the 9 Duma clerks – 3 people, from 37 clerks – 22 people, from 27 junior employees at Mikhail Romanov – 11 people. The removal touched, mainly, the Duma clerks. Most of middle-level employees like professional managers were not suspended from work for political reasons, which correlates with the general trend of the Trouble Time at the beginning of the 17 century. 60% of middle-level employees of Boyar government, which previously supported the power of Sigismund III, continued their work in the new government of Mikhail Romanov.