About the book: 2016 / The last months of the reign of Boris Godunov. With a hoarse roar, the crows flew in clouds towards the capital. At the western borders, Grishka Otrepyev, posing as the murdered Tsarevich Dimitri, led the Polish army, which, under the pretext of restoring him to the throne, invaded the Muscovite kingdom. The Cossacks also join them. The siege of Moscow and Smolensk, the intrigues of Shuisky and the Pretender, the second False Dmitry and the Polish prince Vladislav - a long string of names and trials awaits the Russian land before the heavy cap of Monomakh crowns the worthy brow of the first king of the new dynasty.