The novel “The Tsar Ordered to Hang You” includes a book written six years earlier, but completely revises and turns its plot around. The mystery of the death of an old friend, the story of hopeless love and the ruin of the family home are filled with new meaning, the heroes, previously silent, find a voice and give key testimony. Kostas Kairis - eternal wanderer, Tartu student, Lisbon heir - goes to prison for a murder he did not commit. In letters from his cell, he unravels the seemingly hopeless knots of his life. It turns out that the power of writing is more powerful than family roots, human connections, irreparable mistakes and insurmountable circumstances - in a word, fate. An honest and daring text, looking at the past, changes the future and becomes the road to freedom.