About the book: 2013 / The higher you climb the steps of power, the more lonely you become. Fyodor Rossoshansky, who found himself in the distant past of Rus', felt this well, becoming the right hand of the young Tsarevich Godunov. It seems that the death of Tsar Dmitry should make it easier to put the Monomakh cap on the son of Tsar Boris, but that was not the case. Marina Mnishek, the crowned queen of all Rus', is alive. And in order to achieve sole power, the secret Catholic woman does not disdain anything. For example, she publicly announced that she was carrying a royal child under her heart. True, in fact, she is not pregnant at all, but... Is there really no person who can help her with this? An ambitious widow is ready to commit outright betrayal. And now a secret messenger is flying from her to King Sigismund, who sent his army to Rus'. And Rossoshansky, who came out to meet the Poles, already had few forces: two streltsy regiments and loyal guardsmen…