Based on the comedy of the same name by Tirso de Molina, staged by the State Academic Maly Theatre of the USSR. The plot is built on a number of purely theatrical conventions typical of Spanish "cloak-and-dagger" comedies.
Trying to stop the fratricidal bloodshed started by his father - John the Terrible, Tsar Fyodor gave away power and led Russia to turmoil.
Based on the eponymous novel by A.I. Herzen.
