If you can’t avoid a confrontation—should you strike first? In essence, it’s a question of worldview. Follow the principle of “an eye for an eye,” or, on the contrary, turn the other cheek? The hero, who finds himself in the body of False Dmitry, is convinced: you need to hit hard and you don’t have to be delicate. War for him is a means to achieve a solid peace, and empires don’t arise without blood. The opponents are neither naive nor faint-hearted, and no one wants the transformation of the Tsardom of Moscow into an empire. No one—except Russia itself. Will that single desire be enough?