About the book: 2020 / False Tsarevich Dmitry is marching on Moscow with a large army. Tsar Boris Godunov is waiting for him and is worried, because the prophetess prophesied that Godunov would soon not have a crown and that this was God’s will. The thief's hat is on fire, even if it is Monomakh's hat. Your hair burns and turns gray without time under such a hat. And if a thief steals another thief’s hat, is he considered a thief? Will they call him a thief? Or will they be called a new king? What if first as a king, and then as a thief? God’s will for everything... The novel by Daniil Mordovtsev, which has become a classic of Russian historical prose, vividly and figuratively shows the famous events of the Time of Troubles.