A man from our modern world falls into the past—just a couple of years before the start of the Time of Troubles. His outward resemblance to the deceased Ivan the Terrible plays a cruel trick on him: everyone takes him for Tsarevich Dmitry. But “miraculously saved” Dmitry Ivanovich doesn’t want to play the throne game. He’s ready to befriend Boris Godunov in order to fend off the Polish intervention together. However, fate arranges things differently: in Russia, a boyar revolt begins, growing into a “senseless and merciless” popular uprising. And in order to save the country from the horrors of civil war, Dima decides to become the ruler.
A False Dmitry? Yes. But this is a completely different False Dmitry…