The mysterious Russian soul will arrange the Troubles for itself and heroically overcome it. Everything mixed up in the Moscow state during the interregnum of the Rurikovichs and the Romanovs - Cossacks and monks, boyars and ladies, archers and hussars... The first attempts of the boyars-"oligarchs" and mentors from the West to humiliate the Russian people. The path of the only Russian impostor who became a king. What did he believe? What woman did he really love? What did he want for his Russia? The genre of the “non-historical” historical novel was invented by Mikhail Krupin back in the 90s. In the fabric of the narrative everywhere there are parallels with modernity and at the same time a feeling of the timelessness of what is happening, that eternal “battlefield between God and the devil in the hearts of people,” which Fyodor Dostoevsky once pointed out for the first time.