The novel by Alena Zhukova, a long-lister of the Russian Prize, tells how, in an unexpected way, four generations of one family become involved in solving the mystery of an ancient book-prediction about the fate of Russia. This book is a treasure found before the Great Patriotic War in one of the Russian villages, a book-amulet is associated with the fate of Andrei the Lesser and Vasily the Dark, Boris Godunov and Ivan the Terrible, Alexei Mikhailovich and Elizaveta Petrovna, Catherine the Great and others. Overcoming trials, saving and Forgiving each other, members of the Stepanov family will reveal the secret of this treasure, as well as the secret of the tragic love of the first Russian Tsar from the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich...