This is the story of the extraordinary accession to the Moscow throne of the only Russian impostor who became king. This is the tragedy of power and evil time. Natural disasters, famine, epidemics, cannibalism... The ringing of blades and bell alarms, bloody battles, torture... The rise and fall of yesterday's darlings of fate, Kremlin intrigues and bedrooms... The wrong side of church life and the power of native shrines, the Cossack freemen... Unique human destinies, intertwined into a single a tangle of Russian Troubles. These are unexpected parallels of the past with the present. This is the era.