Once there was a banker— and then he was gone. He got involved in someone else’s conflict and died, landing at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Now I’m not a money baron—I’m a boy named Andrey Beleev, obliged to serve and protect the fatherland. In Moscow, the Godunovs still rule, but False Dmitry is already close. Hard years of unrest and trouble are ahead. The country bleeds, while the Poles and the Swedes trample its land. Hide? Wait it out behind a high fence? No! I won’t be able to.