About the book: 1994 / Film story, which became the basis of the historical film "Tsar Ivan the Terrible", about the motives of A. Tolstoy's story "Prince Silver". The reign of Ivan the Terrible was a time of glory, luxury and cruelty, a time when all concepts were distorted, baseness was called virtue, and betrayal was part of the law. But even then there were people like Prince Serebryany or Morozov. “They walked the straight road, not fearing either disgrace or death; and their life was not in vain, for nothing in the world will be lost, and every deed, and every word, and every thought grows like a tree».