A great deal has been written about the Time of Troubles at the beginning of the seventeenth century in the Moscow state. Yet the mysteries of that era remain—just as unresolved as ever. One of them is the story of the brief reign of Marina Mniszech, the wife of both False Dmitrys. Little is known about Marina—surprisingly little—and what little information exists is extremely contradictory. And almost nothing at all is known about her personal life.
In her new historical detective novel, Anna Bart offers an original, gripping version of those long-ago events, and lifts the veil on the mystery of the death of the would-be Moscow sovereign—the first foreign woman officially crowned to the Russian throne!