About the book: 2017 / In Moscow, under strange circumstances, the son of Ivan the Terrible, Tsarevich Ivan the Young, died. A couple of months later, a series of cynical and inexplicable murders sweeps across Livonia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The ruthless shadow of an unknown killer hung over King Magnus of Livonia and his family! At the same time, the struggle for the vacant Polish throne sharply intensified. Magnus, our contemporary Leonid Artsybashev, also put forward his candidacy, who ended up in the past by stupid accident, but now does not want to leave this terrible and such an attractive time. Here he has a family, a crown... and a whole host of enemies, including the powerful Semigrad prince Stefan Batory with his patron - the Turkish Sultan Murad, and the Swedish king. Meanwhile, by order of Tsar Ivan, the governor, Prince Fyodor Mstislavsky forcibly took the young Queen Maria to Moscow…