Our contemporary falls into the past, a couple of years before the beginning of the Time of Troubles. His external resemblance to the late Ivan the Terrible plays a cruel joke on him - everyone mistakes him for Tsarevich Dmitry. But Dmitry Ivanovich, “miraculously saved,” does not want to enter the game for the throne. He is ready to make friends with Boris Godunov in order to jointly fight off the Polish intervention. However, fate decrees differently - a boyar rebellion begins in Russia, which develops into a “senseless and merciless” popular revolt. And in order to save the country from the horrors of the civil war, Dima decides to become a ruler. False Dmitry? Yes. But this is a completely different False Dmitry...