About the book: year / Beginning of the 17th century. Troubled times. Under strange circumstances, the last direct heir of the Rurik family, Tsarevich Dmitry, dies. Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich dies. The long-standing foundations of the Russian state are beginning to waver. Western rulers are eager to get their hands on the rich Russian lands. A real war is breaking out for the vacant Moscow throne... The messenger Ondryusha Kholodov, who miraculously escaped after the bloody events in Uglich, meets in Moscow a young man who is exactly like the deceased Tsarevich Dmitry. What is this - a miracle or an obsession? One thing is certain: new shocks are coming for Rus'…