The Personal Physician of the Terrible Tsar

A modern-day man, a plastic surgeon in the body of the Duma noble Sergius Shchepotnev, has already been Ivan the Terrible’s personal doctor for the second year. Besides treating the tsar, he has established himself as a successful entrepreneur and scholar: his factories produce paper and glass, his craftsmen mastered the production of spyglasses and other optics, and all of boyar Moscow drinks sbiten made from Shchepotnev’s samovars. At his initiative, the best minds in Europe begin to gather in Moscow. He tries to do everything so that troubled times never come for the Russian realm. Will it work? There are plenty of enemies everywhere—being rich, successful, and also extremely close to the tsar is extremely dangerous.